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Inspector Gabriel Hanaud is a fictional French detective depicted in a series of five novels and one novella by the British writer A. E. W. Mason. He has been described as the "first major fiction police detective of the Twentieth Century".[1]

Inspector Hanaud
First appearance	At the Villa Rose
Last appearance	The House in Lordship Lane
Created by	A. E. W. Mason
Portrayed by	Teddy Arundell Austin Trevor Dennis Neilson-Terry Kenneth Kent Oskar Homolka
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Title	Inspector
Occupation	Police Officer
Nationality	French

Background

Hanaud was modelled on two real-life heads of the Paris Sûreté, Monsieur Macé and Monsieur Goron,[2] whose respective memoirs Mason had studied.[3] Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq was also an inspiration.[4]

Mason wanted Hanaud to be a professional detective who was as physically unlike Sherlock Holmes as possible[3] so, in contrast to the slender Holmes, Hanaud became stout and broad-shouldered.[5] He was to be a genial and friendly soul ready, "as the French detective does", to trust his flair or intuition and to take the risk of acting upon it.[3] In the stories, Hanaud often relies on psychological methods to solve cases.[6] He is generally assisted by his friend, the fastidious Julius Ricardo, a former City of London financier.

Hanaud made his first appearance in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose set in the south of France. He appeared in a further four novels and a novella. His last appearance was in the 1946 novel The House in Lordship Lane. Hanaud has been portrayed on screen several times – with adaptations of At the Villa Rose and The House of the Arrow.

He has been seen as one of a number of influences on the creation of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.[7]

Hanaud works

• At the Villa Rose (1910)
• The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (1917) (novella)
• The House of the Arrow (1924)
• The Prisoner in the Opal (1928)
• They Wouldn't Be Chessmen (1934)
• "The Ginger King" (1940) (Short Story)
• The House in Lordship Lane (1946)
• Inspector Hanaud's Investigations (1931) (omnibus volume of first three novels)

Film adaptations

• At the Villa Rose (1920) starring Teddy Arundell
• At the Villa Rose (1930) starring Austin Trevor
• Le mystère de la villa rose [The Mystery of the Villa Rose] (1930)
• The House of the Arrow (1930) starring Dennis Neilson-Terry
• La Maison de la Fléche [The House of the Arrow] (1930)
• At the Villa Rose (1940) starring Kenneth Kent
• The House of the Arrow (1940) starring Kenneth Kent
• The House of the Arrow (1953) starring Oskar Homolka

References

Bibliography

• Green, Roger Lancelyn (1952). A. E. W. Mason. London: Max Parrish.
• Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of mystery. Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1984.
• Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press, 2004
• Queen, Ellery Queen's Quorum: a History of the Detective-Crime Short Story. New York, 1969.

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