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At the Villa Rose

The Inspector Hanaud Series, Book 1

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At the Villa Rose

By: A. E. W. Mason
Narrated by: Graham Scott
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Summary

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 …

Originally published in 1910.

Public Domain (P)2023 Voices of Today Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction
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A boring listen. A long winded story which could have been exciting if it was shortened and done in a logical sequence. It goes backwards and forwards, backward and forward. I knew the outcome early but continued to listen to check I was right. It’s a book of its time being written in 1910. 🙁

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