His style ranged wide, from Palm Court dances in "aPassagetoIndia" to jaunty Sousa-style marches in "The Man Who Would be King", but it could also be spare.
By then he was no longer a publishing novelist, despite the success he had enjoyed with "a Room with a View", "Howards End" and his final masterpiece, "aPassagetoIndia", which came out in 1924.