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Language English Originally published 1946 Preceded by They Wouldn't Be Chessmen | 3.3/5 Goodreads Media type Print Genre Detective fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 1946
Hodder and Stoughton (UK)
Dodd, Mead (US) Similar A E W Mason books, Inspector Hanaud Series books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House in Lordship Lane is a 1946 British detective novel written by A.E.W. Mason. It is the fifth and final novel in the Hanaud series of stories featuring Inspector Hanaud of the French police. Unlike the rest of the series, the story is set in England in the Lordship Lane area of South London.
Plot summary
Julius Ricardo hitches a lift home across the English Channel from Lézardrieux to Dartmouth on a friend's ketch in response to an unexpected visit to London from his friend Inspector Hanaud. En route they pick up an escapee from a prison ship, who holds a grudge against Daniel Horbury, M.P. When Horbury is found dead at his home in Lordship Lane, Hanaud and Ricardo assist Scotland Yard in the investigation, which also involves Septimus Crottle, the patriarchal owner of the Dagger shipping line, and his extended family.