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British Mystery Megapack:
The Good Soldier,
Haunted Hotel and
The Red House Mystery
By Ford Madox Ford, Wilkie Collins, A. A. Milne
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Fans of traditional British mysteries are in for a treat with this British Mystery Classics three pack:
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
HAUNTED HOUSE by Wilkie Collins
THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY by A. A. MilneSpoiler:
The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel.
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.
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 likeable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail.
This was Milne's first and final venture into the detective and mystery genre, despite its immediate success and an offer of two thousand pounds for his next mystery novel.
Milne lets his readers inside the head of his amateur detective, disregarding the clichéd romance or violence of other detective novels, as the mystery becomes a puzzling sort of parlor game for the novel's characters and readers alike.
Alexander Woollcott called ‘The Red House Mystery’ "one of the three best mystery stories of all time."
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Incidentally, all three of these titles are available here in our very lovely own library.
The Good Soldier -
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The Haunted Hotel (illustrated) -
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The Red House Mystery -
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