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  • Clementina (Esprios Classics)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie’s famous Hercule Poirot. His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequentl...
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    25,89 €

  • Ensign Knightley and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie’s famous Hercule Poirot. His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequentl...
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    25,25 €

  • The Philanderers (Esprios Classics)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie’s famous Hercule Poirot. His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequentl...
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    22,16 €

  • The Four Feathers
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Officer Harry Feversham leaves his military position right before an important battle to the disappointment of his three closest friends and the woman he loves. Appalled by his decision, they each gift him with one striking symbol-a white feather. A young British soldier, Harry Feversham, suddenly resigns from his post and leaves his regiment. He is quickly overcome with shame ...
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    17,93 €

  • The Courtship of Morrice Buckler
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    When a man’s childhood friend has been murdered, he travels to Austria to confront the mischievous figure whose betrayal ultimately led to his horrific death. This is a classic revenge tale that develops into a tumultuous love story. Morrice Buckler is a young man studying in Holland when he receives a disturbing message. His childhood friend, who was in dire straits, is execut...
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    18,08 €

  • Miranda of the Balcony
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Originally published in 1899, this vintage love story centers the plight of an isolated widow and the unsuspecting gentleman who tries to win her heart. Despite increasing odds, the couple fights to find their way to one another. Miranda Warriner is the widow of Ralph Warriner, a man whose life was full of secrets and lies. She lives in a small town near Gibraltar where she cat...
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    16,42 €

  • At the Villa Rose
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    A young apprentice is framed for the murder of her mentor, a wealthy woman who had a serious penchant for spiritualism, theatrics and staged seances. When the woman is suddenly killed all signs point to her longstanding partner. Madame Dauvray was captivated by the supernatural world. She and her companion, Celia Harland, would often engage the public as spiritual mediums. Yet,...
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    16,48 €

  • Ensign Knightley, And Other Stories
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    A vivid window into a changing world, where wit, witlessness and moral resolve collide in crisp Edwardian prose. Ensign Knightley, and Other Stories gathers A. E. W. Mason’s keen portraits of turn of the century Britain into one masterful short stories collection.This anthology of tales offers a compact, enduring pleasure: sly social mores critique, brisk plotting, and lucid ch...
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    21,13 €

  • The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    A mésmerising puzzle wrapped in glamour and danger, The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel invites you to enter a world where whispers travel faster than truth.This is more than a story of crime and cunning. Mason threads classic detective fiction with an early twentieth century mystery, a stylish British thriller that uses a Cairo hotel setting to illuminate social class tension, r...
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    16,36 €

  • The House of the Arrow
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    In The House of the Arrow we once again meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Hanaud is called in to investigate when the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and her heiress, Betty Harlowe, is accused of murder. ...
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    14,76 €

  • The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Calladine fell for her . . . hard. They’d met that night dancing at the Semiramis Hotel and he had fallen under her spell almost immediately. All too soon the evening ended and Calladine thought he’d seen the last of her. But a few hours later she’s on his doorstep. Her name is Joan Carew and she needs his help.Joan quickly admits to him that she had just come form trying to st...
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    6,59 €

  • The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Calladine fell for her . . . hard. They’d met that night dancing at the Semiramis Hotel and he had fallen under her spell almost immediately. All too soon the evening ended and Calladine thought he’d seen the last of her. But a few hours later she’s on his doorstep. Her name is Joan Carew and she needs his help.Joan quickly admits to him that she had just come form trying to st...
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    18,08 €

  • The Broken Road
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers. He was the author of more than 20 books, including At The Villa Rose (1910), a mystery novel in which he introduced his French detective, Hanaud, The House of the Arrow (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England ...
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    34,11 €

  • At the Villa Rose
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    It was Mr. Ricardo’s habit as soon as the second week of August came round to travel to Aix-les-Bains, in Savoy, where for five or six weeks he lived pleasantly. He pretended to take the waters in the morning, he went for a ride in his motor-car in the afternoon, he dined at the Cercle in the evening, and spent an hour or two afterwards in the baccarat-rooms at the Villa des Fl...
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    30,36 €

  • The Four Feathers
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Lieutenant Sutch was the first of General Feversham’s guests to reach Broad Place. He arrived about five o’clock on an afternoon of sunshine in mid June, and the old red-brick house, lodged on a southern slope of the Surrey hills, was glowing from a dark forest depth of pines with the warmth of a rare jewel. Lieutenant Sutch limped across the hall, where the portraits of the Fe...
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    29,89 €

  • The Philanderers
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    Five Englishmen were watching a camp fire in the centre of a forest clearing in mid-Africa. They did not speak, but sat propped against logs, smoking. One of the five knocked out the ashes of his pipe upon the ground; a second, roused by the movement, picked up a fresh billet of wood with a shiver and threw it on to the fire, and the light for a moment flung a steady glow upon ...
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    30,62 €

  • The Witness for the Defense
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    The beginning of all this difficult business was a little speech which Mrs. Thresk fell into a habit of making to her son. She spoke it the first time on the spur of the moment without thought or intention. But she saw that it hurt. So she used it again-to keep Henry in his proper place. 'You have no right to talk, Henry,' she would say in the hard practical voice which so...
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    30,27 €

  • Clementina
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    The landlord, the lady, and Mr. Charles Wogan were all three, it seemed, in luck’s way that September morning of the year 1719. Wogan was not surprised, his luck for the moment was altogether in, so that even when his horse stumbled and went lame at a desolate part of the road from Florence to Bologna, he had no doubt but that somehow fortune would serve him. His horse stepped ...
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    30,13 €

  • Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    It was eleven o’clock at night when Surgeon Wyley of His Majesty’s ship Bonetta washed his hands, drew on his coat, and walked from the hospital up the narrow cobbled street of Tangier to the Main-Guard by the Catherine Port. In the upper room of the Main-Guard he found Major Shackleton of the Tangier Foot taking a hand at bassette with Lieutenant Scrope of Trelawney’s Regiment...
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    30,23 €

  • The Broken Road
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a djehad. But above all it was the road-Linforth’s road. It came winding down fr...
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    29,97 €

  • The Philanderers
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    Five Englishmen were watching a camp fire in the centre of a forest clearing in mid-Africa. They did not speak, but sat propped against logs, smoking. One of the five knocked out the ashes of his pipe upon the ground; a second, roused by the movement, picked up a fresh billet of wood with a shiver and threw it on to the fire, and the light for a moment flung a steady glow upon ...
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    34,35 €

  • The Witness for the Defense
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    The beginning of all this difficult business was a little speech which Mrs. Thresk fell into a habit of making to her son. She spoke it the first time on the spur of the moment without thought or intention. But she saw that it hurt. So she used it again-to keep Henry in his proper place. 'You have no right to talk, Henry,' she would say in the hard practical voice which so...
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    34,01 €

  • Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    It was eleven o’clock at night when Surgeon Wyley of His Majesty’s ship Bonetta washed his hands, drew on his coat, and walked from the hospital up the narrow cobbled street of Tangier to the Main-Guard by the Catherine Port. In the upper room of the Main-Guard he found Major Shackleton of the Tangier Foot taking a hand at bassette with Lieutenant Scrope of Trelawney’s Regiment...
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    33,97 €

  • The Broken Road
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a djehad. But above all it was the road-Linforth’s road. It came winding down fr...
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    33,71 €

  • The Four Feathers
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    Lieutenant Sutch was the first of General Feversham’s guests to reach Broad Place. He arrived about five o’clock on an afternoon of sunshine in mid June, and the old red-brick house, lodged on a southern slope of the Surrey hills, was glowing from a dark forest depth of pines with the warmth of a rare jewel. Lieutenant Sutch limped across the hall, where the portraits of the Fe...
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    33,62 €

  • At the Villa Rose
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    It was Mr. Ricardo’s habit as soon as the second week of August came round to travel to Aix-les-Bains, in Savoy, where for five or six weeks he lived pleasantly. He pretended to take the waters in the morning, he went for a ride in his motor-car in the afternoon, he dined at the Cercle in the evening, and spent an hour or two afterwards in the baccarat-rooms at the Villa des Fl...
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    34,09 €

  • Clementina
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason / E. W. Mason A. E. W. Mason / EWMason AEWMason
    The landlord, the lady, and Mr. Charles Wogan were all three, it seemed, in luck’s way that September morning of the year 1719. Wogan was not surprised, his luck for the moment was altogether in, so that even when his horse stumbled and went lame at a desolate part of the road from Florence to Bologna, he had no doubt but that somehow fortune would serve him. His horse stepped ...
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    33,86 €

  • The Turnstile (1912)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    41,84 €

  • Lawrence Clavering (1897)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,61 €

  • The Witness For The Defense (1913)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,40 €


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