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The Red House Mystery Paperback – September 10, 2010

by A A Milne (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kessinger Publishing (September 10, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1162706546
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1162706542
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 710L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.44 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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A. A. Milne

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A.A. Milne was born in London in 1882 and became a successful playwright and poet. He based Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and friends on the real nursery toys of his son Christopher Robin and published the first of their adventures in 1926. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into sixty-two languages.

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99Bandit1200
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, enjoyable read
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017
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This is a well written book by the author of the Winnie the Pooh series, and the only mystery story he wrote. If your a fan of mysteries and detective fiction you'll enjoy this book. It takes some thought and imagination on the part of the reader but the main character in an enjoyable amateur detective along the lines of Crispin's Gervase Fen. It is an English who-done-it and much better written than someone like Agatha Christie.
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David R. Eastwood
3.0 out of 5 stars A DISAPPOINTING FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2014
Printed across the front cover of "The Dell Great Mystery Library" edition of A. A. Milne's THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY (1922) are Alexander Woollcott's famous words of praise: "One of the three best mystery stories of all time." However, after reading Milne's mystery, anyone who has read even a handful of these vintage mysteries--Wilkie Collins' THE MOONSTONE, Conan Doyle's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, Grant Allen's THE AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE, Baroness Orczy's OLD MAN IN THE CORNER mysteries, E. C. Bentley's TRENT'S LAST CASE, Philip MacDonald's THE RASP, Anthony Berkeley's THE POISONED CHOCOLATE CASE or THE PICCADILLY MURDER, any of R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke mysteries, and virtually any short or long Agatha Christie mystery--will probably feel that Woollcott's praise is excessive.

THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY involves a murder in a British country house where a small number of invited guests have been staying. Although the mystery in this book is well constructed, and although fair clues are presented for half of it, my chief objection is that the remaining half is "solved" entirely by a letter of confession written by the guilty party. To be more precise, we readers and the two amateur detectives (but not the police) are able to figure out the secret of WHO was killed and WHO killed him, but not WHY he was killed. And, in hindsight, it turns out that we readers and the two amateur detectives are chiefly able to reach a fairly certain conclusion about the identity of the killer because our correct conclusion was based on a totally WRONG idea about that person's motive for the murder.

My other main objection to this mystery is that the "telling" of its story is very shallow. The characters are all two-dimensional with no deeply presented feelings about anything. The two amateur detectives, Antony [sic] Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverley, often refer to each other as "Watson" and "Holmes"--with Beverley, the "Watson" one, often exclaiming how much "fun" he is having, and Gillingham, the "Holmes" one, coming across a key clue (an old theatrical poster) by convenient luck near the end ... and taking mysteriously unmotivated mercy on the killer.

Finally, in the last two pages as "Holmes" presents the many strands of his reasoning to "Watson," he totally forgets and misrepresents (or rather Milne himself totally forgot and misrepresented) the clearly established (and CRUCIAL) sequence of two events: when the owner of the Red House told his house-guests that his ne'er-do-well brother was coming to visit, and when he told that same information to a nearby neighbor, the mother of the young woman he planned to marry.

If I were giving this novel a letter grade, it would be a weak "C+". Incidentally, within the first 50 pages I correctly guessed everything that could be solved in this book, not because I'm any sort of good detective, but merely because I happen to be quite familiar with HOW mystery writers construct their plots.
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RGarlin
4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, Charming Story
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017
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A surprise delight from A.A. Milne - his first (and only?) foray into detective fiction. Charming story that held my attention all the way through (well, apart from the few places where things got a tad predictable). Altogether, a bitter-sweet remembrance of how things used to be, and how genteel we once were (in the 50s) - although unsurprisingly not as complex or studied as good fiction of the late 20th C.
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Kathryn B. Good
5.0 out of 5 stars Raymond Chandler thought this was one of the best mysteries he had ever read
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
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This is the author who wrote Winnie the Pooh. Raymond Chandler thought this was one of the best mysteries he had ever read, so I had to read it! It is an adult story, and very interesting. I loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015
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I enjoyed the classic mystery tale
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A. Monerasinghe
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice easy read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2016
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Intriguing mystery. I enjoyed the light hearted style
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4.0 out of 5 stars Milne sense of fun comes through- I enjoyed it more than I thought ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2017
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The A.A. Milne sense of fun comes through- I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. At first I could not face "a Milne" without Tiger and Pooh, but it was fine!
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