"A Sort of Sherlock Holmes with French Wits"

GENERALLY REGARDED as a Golden Age of Detection (GAD) classic, today's book seems to have received at least one fairly lukewarm reception when it was first released:

From T.P.'s & Cassell's Weekly, September 13, 1924.

Resources:

- Wikipedia (no spoilers: HERE), (HERE), and (HERE). The Librivox audio version is (HERE).

- The House of the Arrow is for sale in various formats (HERE).

- World-class mystery expert Curtis Evans believes that Mason's book influenced Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence story "The House of Lurking Death"; go (HERE).

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