The House Of The Arrow


Leído por David Wales

(4.4 stars; 89 reviews)

A young English girl is accused in Dijon of murdering her French aunt. Hanaud to the rescue! Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as well as the opposite of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. In 1910, Mason undertook to create a fictional detective as different as possible from Sherlock Holmes, who had recently been resuscitated after his supposed death by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1903. Inspector Gabriel Hanaud was stout, not gaunt like Holmes; a professional policeman, not a gentleman amateur; from the French Sûreté, not Victorian England; and relying on psychological insights rather than physical evidence. His "Watson" is a retired London banker named Mr. Julius Ricardo, though he appears only briefly in this novel. (David Wales ) (10 hr 0 min)

Capítulos

Letters Of Mark 18:42 Leído por David Wales
A Cry For Help 16:22 Leído por David Wales
Servants Of Chance 30:47 Leído por David Wales
Betty Harlowe 15:51 Leído por David Wales
Betty Harlow Answers 29:56 Leído por David Wales
Jim Changes His Lodging 19:08 Leído por David Wales
Exit Waberski 38:59 Leído por David Wales
The Book 31:45 Leído por David Wales
The Secret 25:01 Leído por David Wales
The Clock Upon The Cabinet 17:42 Leído por David Wales
A New Suspect 24:18 Leído por David Wales
The Breaking Of The Seals 13:19 Leído por David Wales
Simon Harlowe's Treasure-Room 22:53 Leído por David Wales
An Experiment And A Discovery 26:28 Leído por David Wales
The Finding Of The Arrow 20:41 Leído por David Wales
Hanaud Laughs 21:22 Leído por David Wales
At Jean Cladel's 32:37 Leído por David Wales
The White Tablet 26:07 Leído por David Wales
A Plan Frustrated 20:55 Leído por David Wales
A Map And The Necklace 15:58 Leído por David Wales
The Secret House 19:50 Leído por David Wales
The Corona Machine 25:41 Leído por David Wales
The Truth About The Clock 19:04 Leído por David Wales
Ann Upcott's Story 22:43 Leído por David Wales
The Night Of The 27th 19:32 Leído por David Wales
The Façade Of Nôtre Dame 24:51 Leído por David Wales

Reseñas


(4 stars)

I fell for the false trail like a mystery novice. Admittedly, I suspected the the person the writer chose as a red herring before they laid the trail which made me follow it all the more willingly. Overall the story is well written and adequately read.


(5 stars)

A touch of the gothic to an enjoyable mystery read by a favorite reader, David Wales.


(5 stars)

The detective had quite a personality! The mystery kept me guessing.


(4 stars)

Long twisted story. Better make time to listen carefully

Interesting Story, Quirky Detective


(5 stars)

A good story.

Nicely read.


(5 stars)

Detail driven detective story.


(5 stars)

Another jewel by Mason, wonderfully read

Excellent manor house mystery


(5 stars)

This is a full length novel featuring Mason's police investigator, Inspector Hanaud. The story is densely populated by suspicious characters, and I found myself having to go back to relisten to some of the short chapters just to keep everyone straight. It's very clever and very original. In the introduction Inspector Hanaud is compared to Christie's Poirot, but I think of him more as a predecessor to police detective Maigret. Mason is the author of The Four Feathers, one of the all time great "ripping yarns," so it's not surprising that he could create a character as interesting as Hanaud, who is not as well known to mystery lovers as he should be.