Fire Over England
Book Details
| Title: | Fire Over England | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1936 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, historical, film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
| Description: | A fun, romantic spy story full of action and intrigue and set in an interesting period of history. The book is set in the late 16th century and covers the build-up to the Spanish Armada of 1588. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 708 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 208  |
Author Bio for Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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 surete, not Victorian England; and relying on psychological insights rather than physical evidence. His "Watson" is a retired London banker named Mr. Julius Ricardo.
Hanaud's appearance in the 1910 novel, At The Villa Rose marks "the first major fiction detective of the Twentieth Century," according to a historian of the genre. Set in the south of France, its plot also ridicules spiritualism and mediums, well-known enthusiasms of A. Conan Doyle.
Four more Hanaud novels and several short stories followed, the last, The House in Lordship Lane, in 1946 and the only one set in England. ...
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