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An edition of The Red House Mystery (1922)

The red house mystery

  • 4.20 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 230 Want to read
  • 24 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

In the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, this mystery by the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh book is set in the English countryside in a stately British mansion with an abundance of characters and curious clues.

Publish Date
Publisher
Journey Forth
Language
English
Pages
202

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Cover of: The Red House Mystery
The Red House Mystery
2019, Standard Ebooks
in English
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The Red House mystery
2009, ISIS
in English - Large print ed.
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The red house mystery
2009, Feather Trail Press
in English
Cover of: The Red House Mystery (Vintage Classics)
The Red House Mystery (Vintage Classics)
August 31, 2009, Random House UK
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The Red House Mystery
May 14, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
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The red house mystery
2001, Journey Forth
Paperback in English
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The Red House mystery
1998, Dover Publications
in English
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The Red House Mystery
1967-05, E P Dutton
in English
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The red house mystery
1950, Dutton, Dell
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The red house mystery
1922, E.P. Dutton & Company
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Greenville, S.C

Table of Contents

Mrs. Stevens is frightened
Mr. Gillingham gets out at the wrong station
Two men and a body
The brother from Australia
Mr. Gillingham chooses a new profession
Outside or inside?
Portrait of a gentleman
Do you follow me, Watson?
Possibilities of a croquet set
Mr. Gillingham talks nonsense
The Reverend Theodore Ussher
A shadow on the wall
The open window
Mr. Beverley qualifies for the stage
Mrs. Norbury confides in Mr. Gillingham
Getting ready for the night
Mr. Beverley takes the water
Guesswork
The inquest
Mr. Beverley is tactful
Cayley's apology
Mr. Beverley moves on

Edition Notes

Publisher no. 185561 (JourneyForth)

Series
Fingerprint classics
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2001

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.M64 Re 2001, PR6025.I65

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
202 p.
Number of pages
202
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3938743M
Internet Archive
redhousemystery0000miln_r4b0
ISBN 10
1579247024
ISBN 13
9781579247027
LCCN
2001004430
OCLC/WorldCat
47705962
Library Thing
247700

Work Description

This is probably one of the top classics of "golden age" detective fiction. Anyone who's read any mystery novels at all will be familiar with the tropes -- an English country house in the first half of the twentieth century, a locked room, a dead body, an amateur sleuth, a helpful sidekick, and all the rest.

It's a clever story, ingenious enough in its way, and an iconic example of Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers -type murder mysteries. If you've read more than a few of those kinds of books, you might find this one a little predictable, but it's fun despite that.

It's particularly of note, however, because Raymond Chandler wrote about it extensively in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder." After praising it as "an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks," he proceeds to take it sharply to task for its essential lack of realism. This book -- which Chandler admired to an extent -- was what he saw as the iconic example of what was wrong with the detective fiction of his day, and to which novels like "The Big Sleep" or "The Long Goodbye", with their hard-boiled, hard-hitting gumshoes and gritty realism, were a direct response.

So this book's worth reading not just because it's "an agreeable book, light, [and] amusing in the Punch style", but also because reading it will give a deepened appreciation for the later, more realistic detective fiction of writers like Hammett and Chandler.

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