At the Villa Rose (Esprios Classics)
At the Villa Rose (Esprios Classics)

Author: A. E. W. Mason

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0359952364

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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason 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.At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by the British writer AEW Mason, the first to feature his character Inspector Hanaud. The story became Mason's most successful novel of his lifetime. It was adapted by him as a stage play in 1920, and was used as the basis for four film adaptions between 1920 and 1940.

The Woman's Way (Esprios Classics)
The Woman's Way (Esprios Classics)

Author: Charles Garvice

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1387155822

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Celia Grant, a lady fallen on hard times, lives in a grotty apartment building in London, supporting herself financially. One day she happens upon the young man in the adjoining room contemplating suicide, and saves his life, which he never forgets: 'I did not know her name until you told me just now; I saw her for only a few minutes; those few minutes, and her angelic goodness, changed the whole current of my life.'