The House of the Arrow

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The House of the Arrow (1924)
by A. E. W. Mason

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The 3rd story in the "Inspector Hanaud" mystery series. (The second, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel was novelette published separately and also included in the collection, The Four Corners of the World, both published in 1917). Contemporary mini reviews are in the Talk page.

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. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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The
House of the Arrow

By

A. E. W. MASON

New York
George H. Doran Company

COPYRIGHT, 1924,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CHAPTER	.	PAGE
one	Letters of Mark	9
two	A Cry for Help	18
three	Servants of Chance	26
four	Betty Harlowe	41
five	Betty Harlowe Answers	49
six	Jim Changes His Lodging	65
seven	Exit Waberski	75
eight	The Book	93
nine	The Secret	109
ten	The Clock upon the Cabinet	122
eleven	A New Suspect	131
twelve	The Breaking of the Seals	143
thirteen	Simon Harlowe's Treasure-room	150
fourteen	An Experiment and a Discovery	162
fifteen	The Finding of the Arrow	175
sixteen	Hanaud Laughs	186
seventeen	At Jean Cladel's	197
eighteen	The White Tablet	214
nineteen	A Plan Frustrated	227
twenty	A Map and the Necklace	238
twenty-one	The Secret House	246
twenty-two	The Corona Machine	256
twenty-three	The Truth About the Clock	269
twenty-four	Ann Upcott's Story	279
twenty-five	The Night of the 27th	290
twenty-six	The Façade of Notre Dame	300

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1948, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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