The Red House Mystery
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тАЬLike all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective storiesтАжThe least that I can do is write you one.тАЭ So wrote A. A. Milne to his father, to whom he dedicated this delectable mystery.
Mark AblettтАЩs stately mansion, the Red House, is filled with very proper guests when his most improper brother returns from Australia. The prodigal brother enters MarkтАЩs study, the parlor maid hears arguing, and the brother diesтАФrather suddenly, with a bullet between his eyes. The study is locked from the inside, and Mark is missing!
Investigating the crime is wealthy Antony Gillingham, who rivals Sherlock Holmes in his remarkable powers of observation. He is aided by his friend, Bill Beverley, a cheerful young man in white flannels. Echoes of Christopher Robin and his friends chime nostalgically throughout this charming classic of detection!
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Alan Alexander Milne (1882тАУ1956) was the son of a Scottish schoolmaster. Milne won a scholarship to Westminster School and later read mathematics at Cambridge. His real interest was in lighthearted writing; he edited the undergraduate magazine Granta and at twenty-four he became assistant editor of Punch. After serving as a signals officer in World War I he won additional acclaim as a playwright. His great success, however, came as a writer of childrenтАЩs literature after publishing a series of verses about his young son Christopher Robin (When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six). Following the acclaim received for the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Milne published several novels as well as an autobiography, ItтАЩs Too Late Now (1939).
