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5/5 epubBooks Publication date 1924 Originally published 1924 Preceded by At the Villa Rose Genre Detective fiction | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print () Followed by The Prisoner in the Opal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publishers Hodder & Stoughton (UK), George H. Doran Company (US) Similar A E W Mason books, Inspector Hanaud Series books, Detective fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House of the Arrow is a 1924 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired several films of the same title. It features the fictional French detective Inspector Hanaud.
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Plot summary
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. But when Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and Waberski accuses Betty of murder, junior partner Jim Frobisher is sent to the estate to find out what's really going on.
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The various film versions are as follows:
La Maison de la Fléche (France) (1930)
Directed by Henri Fescourt
Black-and-white.
The House of the Arrow (UK) (1930)
Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Black-and-white.
The House of the Arrow (UK)(1940)
Also known as Castle of Crimes (US) . Directed by Harold French.
Black-and-white.
The House of the Arrow (UK) (1953)
Directed by Michael Anderson.