The House Of The Arrow
A. E. W. Mason
Read by David Wales
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)
Chapters
Letters Of Mark | 18:42 | Read by David Wales |
A Cry For Help | 16:22 | Read by David Wales |
Servants Of Chance | 30:47 | Read by David Wales |
Betty Harlowe | 15:51 | Read by David Wales |
Betty Harlow Answers | 29:56 | Read by David Wales |
Jim Changes His Lodging | 19:08 | Read by David Wales |
Exit Waberski | 38:59 | Read by David Wales |
The Book | 31:45 | Read by David Wales |
The Secret | 25:01 | Read by David Wales |
The Clock Upon The Cabinet | 17:42 | Read by David Wales |
A New Suspect | 24:18 | Read by David Wales |
The Breaking Of The Seals | 13:19 | Read by David Wales |
Simon Harlowe's Treasure-Room | 22:53 | Read by David Wales |
An Experiment And A Discovery | 26:28 | Read by David Wales |
The Finding Of The Arrow | 20:41 | Read by David Wales |
Hanaud Laughs | 21:22 | Read by David Wales |
At Jean Cladel's | 32:37 | Read by David Wales |
The White Tablet | 26:07 | Read by David Wales |
A Plan Frustrated | 20:55 | Read by David Wales |
A Map And The Necklace | 15:58 | Read by David Wales |
The Secret House | 19:50 | Read by David Wales |
The Corona Machine | 25:41 | Read by David Wales |
The Truth About The Clock | 19:04 | Read by David Wales |
Ann Upcott's Story | 22:43 | Read by David Wales |
The Night Of The 27th | 19:32 | Read by David Wales |
The Façade Of Nôtre Dame | 24:51 | Read by David Wales |
Reviews
Brett Miller
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.
Dolly
A touch of the gothic to an enjoyable mystery read by a favorite reader, David Wales.
ms SV
The detective had quite a personality! The mystery kept me guessing.
A LibriVox Listener
Long twisted story. Better make time to listen carefully
Interesting Story, Quirky Detective
Frank Bowden
A good story.
wonderful reader
Another jewel by Mason, wonderfully read
Excellent manor house mystery
Martha Mydear
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.
Terrible reader!
Lloyd Boone
Terrible reader, sounds like he is in an echo chamber.