Classica Libris: 325 books

The Dean’s Elbow begins in a calm lagoon at the harbour of Canford Cliffs. It is here that Mark Thewliss brings his fiancé, Mona, to meet his pride and joy, the nine ton cutter, Sea Flower. They are to practise for a thrilling race on the sea. This is a romantic and elegant story examining the lives and loves of young 1920s socialites.

The plump, middle-aged and ever-optimistic Inspector Gabriel Hanaud features in A.E.W. Mason’s last detective fiction. Set amid the acrid smog of London, a little affair threatens to become a big affair with deadly consequences. This is a classic Hanaud thriller that will not fail to delight crime fans everywhere.

France, England, South America, the Mediterranean, are the background for A. E. W. Mason’s magical tales of drama and horror. From the story of what lovely Joan Winterbourne saw from the window of the old house near Caen on the night of the Studio Ball to the story of “The Wounded God” ending...

Set in the Elizabethan era, Fire Over England is the story of Robin Aubrey, whose ambition is to both serve his queen and avenge his father who fell foul of the “The Spanish Inquisition.” He assembles a small fleet with a view to help fight off the Spanish Armada, but Elizabeth’s advisor, Walsingham,...

“The Ginger King”, was first printed in the Strand Magazine in 1940, and was never collected in a book form during Mason’s lifetime. A detective Hanaud mystery.

The Drum is an adventure novel by the British writer A. E. W. Mason which was first published in 1937. The book's action takes place on the Northwest Frontier of British India. Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl plans to wipe out the British troops as they...

Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore their lustre his secretary, Major Scott Carruthers, hires a beautiful, down-on-her-luck opera singer, Lydia Flight, to wear...

A collection of mysteries and adventures from A. E. W. Mason.

A criminal sentenced to life in a French penal colony leaves his girlfriend to take care of his stash. When he escapes, he finds that she has spent it all on frivolous living, and he sets out to exact vengeance. Guest appearances from Inspector Hanaud and Julius Ricardo.

This glittering three-part fantasy begins in Ancient Rome and tells an evocative tale of reincarnation up to the present day. A. E. W. Mason brings to life the poignancies of the everyday through the characters of Attilus Scaurius, Anthony Scarr and Adrian Sharp. This unusual story is as much a reflection...

When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is ignored. Unknown to Waberski, he has been disinherited in favour of Betty Harlowe, the niece of Mrs. Harlowe’s late husband....

“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 shebeen a different woman. But she was a woman of schemes and little plots, who watched...

En 1789, le château d’Eppstein est habité par le comte Rodolphe, son épouse et leurs fils: Maximilien, l’aîné, vil et ambitieux, déjà veuf; et Conrad, rêveur, frêle, sympathique. Ce dernier a épousé en secret la fille du garde forestier, Noémie. La mort dans l’âme, les parents le...

The giant moth has brought the Doctor, Tommy Stubbins, Chee-Chee, and Polynesia to the Moon. As they explore this strange new world, the Doctor soon discovers how to communicate with the intelligent plants. But mystery lies all around—why were they brought here? Who is watching them? Who is the owner of the giant footprints they encounter? And how will they ever get back to Earth?