Richard Mason

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    July 2017
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Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The World of Suzie Wong

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    A re-issue of a bestseller which the 1960 film starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden is basedRobert is t he only resident of the Nam Kok hotel not renting his room by the hour when he meets Suzie at the bar. She becomes his muse and they fall in l...

  • The Drowning People

    My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success. Of course I know that she did nothing o f the kind.... It was ...

  • Lighted Rooms, The

  • Natural Elements

    Now in his dazzling new novel Mason writes about mothers and daughters; aging and death; memory and longing; history and narrative; and about the high-stakes, full-tilt embrace of life. The setting is London. The time is the present. Mother and...

  • The Red Scarf

    In his debut novel, Richard Mason takes us back to 1944 Arkansas through the eyes of Richard, a twelve-year-old with a dream. The dream seems simple enough-to buy a red scarf for Rosalie, the prettiest girl in school. However, simply buying a scarf...

  • The Danged Swamp!

    Three Books in one eBook - Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp!The Richard, the Paperboy Series comprises six novels set in a small village in the American-south during WW II. The first book in the series was The Red Scarf published...

  • The Queen of Hamburger Row: A reluctant prostitute

  • "I Will Drink Your Blood" The Vampire-Werewolf of Flat Creek Swamp

  • Lyin' Like a Dog

    As a young boy, R. Harper Mason lived the life of the paperboy, 'Richard, ' in this novel. His interactions with the people in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and the surrounding woods and swamps, formed the basis for both his first novel, The ...



  • The Warlord's Daughter

  • The Yankee Doctor

    It's 1945 in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and 12-year-old Richard Mason and his best friend, John Clayton Reed, have a big problem. Not the distant War overseas, getting caught in Old Man Odom's watermelon patch, or missing any of Walter Win...

  • History of a Pleasure Seeker

    The novel opens in Amsterdam at the turn of the last century. It moves to New York at the time of the 1907 financial crisis and proceeds onboard a luxury liner headed for Cape Town. It is about a young man -- Piet Barol -- with an instinctive app...

  • Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp!

    Three Books in one eBook - Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp!The Richard, the Paperboy Series comprises six novels set in a small village in the American-south during WW II. The first book in the series was The Red Scarf published...

  • The Mystery of the Canebrake

    Thanksgiving Day, 1944, Norphlet, ArkansasWell, I just know you ain’t gonna believe this in a million, million years, ’cause sometimes things like what happen to me and John Clayton just sound so plain outta this world, that nobody ever believes ...

  • The River Rat, And a Catahoula Hog Dog

    Author Richard Mason has been described as Americas' "New Mark Twain". This is the final book in Richard Mason's seven book series recounting the tales and adventures of Richard the paperboy - a young boy growing up in a small town in South Arkansas ...

  • How Me and John Clayton Saved the World

    The 8th in the Richard, the Paperboy series. Another wild tale about Richard and his best friend John Clayton. This time the boys get tangled up with a wild snake filled wedding. Of course, it's the space creatures who are the big problem, but the No...

  • Triple Jeopardy

    Out of the death throes of Gaddafi’s Libya a strange, potentially catastrophic story emerges as al-Qaida and one of the countries inner circle of leaders hatch a plan to secrete away hidden enriched uranium and biomaterial. Josh Martin SF leads a t...

  • The Norphlet Rangers and the Battle of Flat Creek Swamp

    It’s 1944 and in the little village of Norphlet, Arkansas, Richard and John Clayton are making plans for a quiet summer of fun. However, north of their town is a German Prisoner of War Camp, and just when everyone thinks the War with Germany is abo...

  • Runaways!

    A coming of age story is featured as the 10th novel in the Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy Series. Richard and John Clayton encounter unusual family problems and they decided to spend a few days with Uncle Swamp hoping that their family problems will ...



  • The Norphlet Mafia

    It’s the summer of 1944 and Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy, John Clayton, and Ears are in one heck of a mess. Yeah, there was an ‘accident’ involving a small herd of 10 Chihuahuas, which has sent the whole state into an uproar, and the three bo...

  • The Diary of a College Rebel

    “Yeah, I guess I should have written this book under a pen name, or maybe just have moved to Texas when it came out. My God, I can’t believe some of the crap I pulled during those four short years. But, hey, nobody’s perfect, and if all those g...

  • The Phantom of Norphlet

    It all started with mysterious writing on the town's water tank. There is a specter amongst you. Richard and John Clayton were puzzled, but like the rest of the town they just thought it was schoolboys fooling around. But as the days passed and more ...

  • The Brown Stuff

    Out of work, late twentysomething Danny Brown still lives at home with his Dad after the death of his Mum. In an effort to make a quick quid, Danny is often drawn to more dubious means of employment involving less than savoury characters.Whilst enjoy...

  • The Fever Tree

    From the bestselling author of The World of Susie Wong, a breathtakingly cinematic story full of tragedy and romance, set in 1940s India.Englishman Richard Birkett lives for danger and adventure, so when he is given a perilous mission to India he jum...

  • The Wind Cannot Read

    Winner of the 1948 John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeA poignant novel of forbidden love, The Wind Cannot Read is the story of Michael Quinn, an English airman, who falls in love with Sabby, his Japanese teacher, in India during the Second World War. "Enemies"...

  • The Gentleman's New Pocket Farrier

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  • Us

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    Julian's lost his sister, Jake his lover, Adrienne her best friend. Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's accidental death. She was always the headstrong one, the righter of w...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Mason has published 27 books.

Richard Mason does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wind Cannot Read, was published in July 2017.

The first book by Richard Mason, The World of Suzie Wong, was published in January 1969.

No. Richard Mason does not write books in series.
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