Mason graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. He spent a while in stage acting before commencing his writing career which saw his first novel, A Romance in Wastdale, in 1895. Mason was elected MP for coventry in 1906 and his greatest work, The Four Feathers, was published in 1907. His next successful work was At The Villa Rose (1910), where he introduced his French detective, Hanaud. Mason rose to the rank of Major during the First World War serving with the Manchester Regiment and the Royal Marine Light Infantry. His other well-known works include The House of the Arrow (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England (1937). |
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