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They Wouldn't Be Chessmen

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1934

Originally published
  
1934

Preceded by
  
The Prisoner in the Opal

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Series
  
Inspector Hanaud

Media type
  
Print

Author
  
A. E. W. Mason

Genre
  
Detective fiction

Followed by
  
The House in Lordship Lane

Publishers
  
Hodder & Stoughton (UK), Doubleday (US)

Similar
  
A E W Mason books, Detective fiction books

They Wouldn't Be Chessmen is a 1934 British detective novel by A.E.W. Mason. It is the fourth book in the Inspector Hanaud series of novels.

Plot summary

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 them while they heal. They take a houseboat on the Seine near Caudebec-en-Caux, and while there make the acquaintance of Julius Ricardo. When the pearls are stolen Ricardo teams up with his old friend Inspector Gabriel Hanaud to solve the mystery.

References

They Wouldn't Be Chessmen Wikipedia