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Streszczenie książki Willa Róż
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
In Aix-les-Bains, a rich widow is strangled, a girl vanishes, and a detective on holiday takes the case.
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Willa Róż — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 4 h 40 min3 h 40 min fast, 5 h 35 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 66 500
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1910by A. E. W. Mason
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Willa Róż in short
The story begins with a glimpse of a girl in a garden, but the middle is what holds the reader. A woman is murdered in a pretty salon. The girl who fled with the killers has every sign against her.
What Willa Róż is about
Picture a rich, fussy man who spends every August at a spa town, where he watches the gamblers more than he gambles. One evening he sees a girl in white satin rush into the garden, swing her slipper against the stones, and rush back inside. Two days later the town is shouting that a woman has been strangled and the girl has vanished.
At the Villa Rose is a detective novel by A. E. W. Mason, set in Aix-les-Bains in the high season. It gives you a crime that looks simple and is not, a French detective who reads rooms like books, and a vain, kindly Englishman who tries to keep up.
Dla kogo. You will love this book if you enjoy a clever detective, a setting of casinos and villas, clues you can weigh yourself, and an observer whose pride is gently teased.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A summer night at Aix sets the puzzle
Julius Ricardo is a rich widower of nearly fifty who lives for pleasant company. Every August he goes to Aix-les-Bains.
On his first evening he sits in the garden behind the gaming rooms. A girl in a white satin dress dashes out and throws herself onto a bench. Then she runs back in.
Inside, a young Englishman named Harry Wethermill holds the bank at baccarat. A small gloved hand drops a banknote on the cloth, and Wethermill quits the bank rather than play against her. He calls the girl Celia, and the two walk out together. Later a stout, over-jeweled woman calls her Celie, and Celia answers with a respect that puzzles Ricardo.
A mystery begins with ordinary details, so notice what looks like nothing at all.
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A newspaper brings murder to the dressing room
Next morning Wethermill bursts into Ricardo's dressing room and holds out a special edition of the local paper.
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The night rounds fix the hour of the crime
Hanaud, Wethermill and Ricardo walk to the villa with Perrichet, the young policeman who found the body.
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The salon holds a puzzle Hanaud cannot read
Inside the Villa Rose, Ricardo expects the little salon to speak to him.
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The maid tells a story that sounds true
Helene Vauquier sits in an upstairs bedroom, pale and neat in black.
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The hidden jewels make the crime stranger
Hanaud lets the maid go to friends in Aix, with a plainclothes man in the cab.
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A list of suspicions meets a captain's silence
Over lunch Ricardo writes eight points against Celia on a sheet of paper.
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A dead witness and a night raid on Lake Geneva
Hanaud shows Ricardo a Geneva newspaper carrying an advertisement that offers four thousand francs for news of a girl in pale green.
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Belief, trickery and the weight of proof
Beneath the detective plot runs a quiet study of deception.
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A comic narrator and a detective who hides his hand
Mason tells the story from the side.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Hanaud A stout, playful detective of the Paris Sûreté who takes the case while on holiday and keeps his reasoning to himself.
- Julius Ricardo A rich, vain, kindly English widower who observes the investigation and tries, with mixed success, to help the detective.
- Celia Harland A young English girl, the companion of Madame Dauvray, who vanishes on the night of the murder.
- Harry Wethermill A brilliant young inventor who professes love for Celia and begs Hanaud to take the case and find her.
- Madame Dauvray A wealthy, kind and superstitious widow who loves jewels and longs to speak with the spirits of great ladies.
- Helene Vauquier Madame Dauvray's stern Norman maid, who tells the police her version of that night.
- Perrichet A young, eager policeman who finds the body and wants badly to prove he is clever.
- Louis Besnard The neat, confident commissaire of police in Aix, who believes the case is already clear.
How it ends (spoiler)
Hanaud explains everything. Harry Wethermill is the murderer of Madame Dauvray and Marthe Gobin, and Helene Vauquier is the true leader of the plot, with Adele Tace and her family as accomplices. Wethermill's confidence gives way, and he is arrested. The two women face life imprisonment, and he may face the guillotine or exile. Celia is innocent and was kept alive only because the thieves wanted the hidden jewels. She goes to live with Ricardo's sister in London.
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Pytania o Willa Róż
What is At the Villa Rose about?
It follows the murder of a wealthy widow, Madame Dauvray, at a villa in Aix-les-Bains, and the search for her missing young companion Celia. The detective Hanaud, on holiday, is asked to take the case and reads the clues.
Who is Hanaud in At the Villa Rose?
Hanaud is a detective of the Paris Sûreté who is staying in Aix on holiday. He is heavy and humorous, moves quickly, hides his thoughts, and calls himself the captain of the ship.
Who tells the story in At the Villa Rose?
The story follows Julius Ricardo, a rich, fussy Englishman who loves art and company. He watches Hanaud work, offers eager theories, and gives the book much of its humor.
Who wrote At the Villa Rose and when?
A. E. W. Mason wrote it. He was an English novelist and playwright who died in 1948. It is a work of fiction, invented for the story, set in Aix-les-Bains in the years of grand villas.
Is At the Villa Rose easy to follow?
Yes, in the sense that matters. The chapters are short, the clues are shown in plain scenes, the dialogue is lively, and Ricardo's amusing commentary helps readers keep track of who knows what.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Mason, A. E. W. At the Villa Rose. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/at-the-villa-rose.
Mason, A. E. W. (2026). At the Villa Rose. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/at-the-villa-rose (Original work published 1910)
Mason, A. E. W. At the Villa Rose. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/at-the-villa-rose.
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