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Bezig met laden... The Red House Mystery (1922)door A. A. Milne
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A free-spirited gentleman serendipitously stops to visit a friend who is guest at the Red House. He enters just as a classic locked-room murder has been committed and the assumed killer has disappeared. He remains to testify at the inquest but decides to investigate with the aid of his friend. He draws some true and some false conclusions before solving the case. A fair example of the elaborate puzzle style of the 1920s mystery. The Red House Mystery is a classic English mystery. When a stranger enters the Red House, he unwittingly involves himself in a murder mystery. Mark Ablett's brother, Robert, has arrived from Australia, but stranger Antony Gillingham, an amateur detective, arrives just after Robert has been murdered. Along with his friend, Bill Beverley, they investigate the murder. There are secret passages, a disappearance of Mark, and amateur sleuthing. The mystery is fun and a very different tale than what is expected from A.A. Milne, beloved writer of the Winnie the Pooh stories. Enjoyable, quick read. A whimsical tale in which two idle gentlemen consciously model themselves on Holmes and Watson, then talk to each other like Pooh and Piglet. As a depiction of that very English social institution, the house in the country, it was a pleasant way to spend a few hours when my brain was too tired for much of a challenge. There is the obligatory secret passage and a long-lost brother whom none of the guests have ever seen. I stayed to the end for the reveal, but that was too lengthy, repeating things that had been established, and far-fetched. On balance, it's not a good book. Only two stars from me. Before Winnie the Pooh, Milne wrote this detective story for his father. It features an amateur detective who, in character, owes much to Sherlock Holmes, and who recruits his own Dr. Watson when he drops in on a mysterious murder at The Red House. It was fun to read, as the interplay between "Holmes" and "Watson" was witty, but it offered almost no challenge to the reader's detecting skills, and suffered from the "culprit tells all and fills in the blanks" syndrome. A good enough way to read away a lazy afternoon. Read and reviewed in 2008 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The Red House Mystery is a classic "whodunit" set in an English country house. An eclectic cast of characters are gathered in the house when the owner's brother, recently arrived from Australia, is found murdered in a locked room. Two of the house guests take the investigation upon themselves and they wade almost playfully through the abundance of evidence and theories. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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