At the Villa Rose, A. E. W. Mason
At the Villa Rose, A. E. W. Mason
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At the Villa Rose

Author: A. E. W. Mason

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2023

Synopsis

At the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains, a murder is discovered: wealthy but naïve Mme Dauvray is found strangled in the salon of her villa, apparently for her famously expensive jewels. Her young English companion, Celia Harland, is missing, and her maid is bound and chloroformed upstairs. A young English inventor who has been courting Miss Harland adamantly protests her innocence, and begs the famous Sûreté detective Inspector Hanaud to investigate …

About A. E. W. Mason

A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948) was born in Dulwich, England. A graduate of Oxford, he was first a professional actor before becoming a playwright. When he turned to writing fiction, he proved to be a versatile and prolific author, excelling at historical fiction, adventure fiction, social melodrama, and crime fiction. He is perhaps best remembered today for his tales of adventure and detection, often set in exotic locales.

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and the Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jazzy on April 18, 2023

A murder mystery and a clever detective.......more

Goodreads review by Bev on October 30, 2014

The Murder at the Villa Rose (1910) opens at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo with a young, handsome Englishman in the process of breaking the bank. Our focal point for the scene, Julius Ricardo, is an observer in Monte Carlo and sees a beautiful, young woman in distress in the gardens. It soon beco......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on August 17, 2017

It's a fun read with an interesting plot and characters well developed, classically non offensive. Pleasantly performed & clearly narrated. Recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Emma on December 13, 2024

The story was good, I liked the suspense and the list of suspects, and the way the author used elements such like French history and seances. It was also interesting when Inspector Hanaud explained how he interpreted the various clues, though we are revealed about the killer a bit too early. However,......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on April 07, 2019

A fun little mystery written at the very beginning of the twentieth century, looking forward to work by later writers like Agatha Christie. The main detective is very reminiscent of Poirot, and Ricardo, with his eager interest in the crime and persistent misreading of the clues that allows the detec......more

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