
Classic French detective mysteries starring Inspector Hanaud, a key inspiration for Poirot, in four cases of murder and intrigue.
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Classic French detective mysteries starring Inspector Hanaud, a key inspiration for Poirot, in four cases of murder and intrigue.
Meet the brilliant French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Collected here together for the first time are four of his most famous cases. At the Villa Rose, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel, The House of the Arrow, and The Ginger King. Thrill to over five hundred pages of mystery and mayhem. A wonderful treat for the mystery reader! One of the best, most artistic, most engrossing det...
will contain mild spoilers
Mild attraction and courtship; no explicit sexual content
Murders and investigations; deaths described without graphic gore
Rare mild period language; no strong modern profanity
Social drinking typical of early 20th-century settings
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Passing period references; not a central theme
No fantasy magic present
Spiritualism and séance fraud central to one major case
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Murder victims; coercion and cruelty in criminal schemes
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