tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post7853785709821734452..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - At the Villa Rose Martin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-32110097573073562972015-01-12T22:14:03.437+00:002015-01-12T22:14:03.437+00:00Thanks, Philip. I've never read a bio of Mason...Thanks, Philip. I've never read a bio of Mason, but I agree, from what I know, he had an amazing life. I've not seen Fire over England.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-28523477932765836372015-01-12T22:13:03.612+00:002015-01-12T22:13:03.612+00:00I haven't read The Prisoner in the Opal, but I...I haven't read The Prisoner in the Opal, but I do have a copy, so hope to get round to it before long.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-28267808640382712822015-01-10T07:21:32.370+00:002015-01-10T07:21:32.370+00:00Aaah. I remember At the Villa Rose with great plea...Aaah. I remember At the Villa Rose with great pleasure. Mason was a rather remarkable man -- politician, soldier, Intelligence operative, novelist, playwright -- and that he could weave a fine tale is in part indicated by the fact that six of his works were adapted for the screen. Villa Rose was so three times, House of the Arrow four times, but in another genre and most famously perhaps, The Four Feathers seven times, far most successfully in 1939 with Ralph Richardson. Fire over England has been filmed only once, but that film is something of a classic of its type, with a great performance by Flora Robson as Elizabeth I. I join you in recommending Mason most highly, Martin. A great choice.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-12757339999260373282015-01-09T20:46:35.067+00:002015-01-09T20:46:35.067+00:00I quite enjoyed his much later (1928) mystery The ...I quite enjoyed his much later (1928) mystery <em>The Prisoner in the Opal</em> as well. Have you read that one?dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.com