The Red House Mystery

Author : A. A. Milne
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House Mystery written by A. A. Milne and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel (except for Four Days Wonder). Plot introduction: The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. Literary significance and criticism: The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944), criticised Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler wrote of Milne's novel, "It is an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks [...] Yet, however light in texture the story may be, it is offered as a problem of logic and deduction. If it is not that, it is nothing at all. There is nothing else for it to be. If the situation is false, you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about." In his introduction to the 1926 UK edition, A. A. Milne said he had "a passion" for detective stories, having "all sorts of curious preferences" about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385535856
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red House written by Mark Haddon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.

Author : Sue Grafton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330507176
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S is for Silence written by Sue Grafton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S is for Silence is the nineteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's impetuous husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before . . . Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet simply moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as Serena there aren't many places to hide when things turn vicious . . .

Author : Patricia Wentworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dower House Mystery written by Patricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Collective
Publisher : Black Cat-Cideb
ISBN 13 : 9788853012043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Akron House Mystery written by Collective and published by Black Cat-Cideb. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol and Steve Taylor move into an old, mysterious house which hides many secrets. Carol hears footsteps at night, Steve finds an old love letter from the American Civil War and the people in town hear a woman crying in the night. Who is trying to give them a message and why?

Author : Julie Campbell
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307808769
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Trailer Mystery: Trixie Belden written by Julie Campbell and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for fun, adventure, and intrigue in the iconic mystery series starring the beloved teenage girl detective, Trixie Belden! Trixie and Honey’s friend Jim has run away from Sleepyside–before anyone could tell him that he is the only heir to the huge Frayne fortune. The girls set out across upstate New York in a trailer to track him down . . . and stumble onto another mystery along the way!

Author : Alan Alexander Milne
Publisher : New York : E.P. Dutton [c1933]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Days' Wonder written by Alan Alexander Milne and published by New York : E.P. Dutton [c1933]. This book was released on 1933 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joyce Reardon
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 0786868015
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer written by Joyce Reardon and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterword by Steven Rimbauer Aligned with the TV miniseries, 'Stephen King's Rose Red', comes the publication of this rare document, offering a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized aristocratic society in the early 1900s - events that can only be fully understood now that the the diary has come to light, following the development of a girl into womanhood as well as the construction of the mansion that would become the site of horrific and inexplicable tragedies.

Author : Paul Adshead
Publisher : Child's Play International
ISBN 13 : 9780859539555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Herring Mystery written by Paul Adshead and published by Child's Play International. This book was released on 1996-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an artist, my eyes are trained to observe the minutest detail, enabling me to spot the most obscure clues. Can you do the same? By looking carefully at the notes and pictures in my casebook, can you find all the clues and deduce how the crime has been committed? The reader, as assistant detective, must gather clues from the text and illustrations to help solve a mystery involving a stately home full of possible suspects and a disappearing fish-shaped ruby.

Author : Red Bird Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902626680
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Picture Search: Haunted House written by Red Bird Press and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walk in the country with their canine companion, Buster, turns into a scary adventure for teenage twins, Joe and Joanna. Buster has run off and is heading for the old derelict mansion. The twins follow--but do they know what creepy encounters await them? Can you spot the ghosts and ghouls in the shadows? Will Joe and Joanna rescue their pet pal? Put on your Secret Glasses and all is revealed.