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

Mason wanted Hanaud to be a professional detective who was as physically unlike Sherlock Holmes as possible so, in contrast to the slender Holmes, Hanaud became stout and broad-shouldered. 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. In the stories, Hanaud often relies on psychological methods to solve cases. He is generally assisted by his friend, the fastidious Julius Ricardo, a former City of London financier.

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

All published appearances of Gabriel Hanaud from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* At the Villa Rose (1910)
* The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (1917)
* The House of the Arrow (1924)
* The Prisoner in the Opal (1928)

* At the Villa Rose (1920)

* In France, the copyright term is 70 years from the death of the author which for A.E.W. Mason who died in 1948 was 2018.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Hanaud Inspector Hanaud at Wikipedia]

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