Best known for The Four Feathers and the Hanaud detective novels, A.E.W. Mason wrote many novels.
- The Drum is an adventure novel by this British writer which was first published in 1937.
- In it, murder and intrigue in a princely state on the Northwest Frontier of British India.
- A fairy drum no one must see beaten.
- A secret mission across the Hindu Kush and friendship between an Indian Prince and an English drummer-boy.
- All these are elements of The Drum which is one of two novels by A.E.W.
- Mason set in India.
- A pukka adventure in the days of the Raj.
This story is a rousing, Kipling-like adventure set in contemporary India, dealing with uprising and rebellion and a native prince caught between two worlds and forced into hiding.
