Alfred Edward Woodley Mason: 3 books

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (A. E. W. Mason), (1865 – 1948) was an English author. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He was the author of more than 20 books, including At The Villa Rose (1910), a mystery novel...

At the first glance it looked as if the midnight chimes of a clock in an old city of the Midlands might most fitly ring in this history. But we live in a very small island, and its inhabitants have for so long been wanderers upon the face of the earth that one can hardly search amongst them for the beginnings...

There were only two amongst all Pamela Mardale's friends who guessed that anything was wrong with her; and those two included neither her father nor her mOther. Her mOther, indeed, might have guessed, had she been a different woman. But she was a woman of schemes and little plots, who watched with concentration...