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The Red House Mystery

By: A. A. Milne
Narrated by: William Sutherland
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Summary

"Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories...after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do is write one." So wrote A.A. Milne, beloved creator of Winnie the Pooh, to his father, to whom he dedicated this delectable mystery.
Mark Ablett's stately mansion, the Red House, is filled with very proper guests when his most improper brother returns from Australia. The prodigal brother enters Mark's study, the parlor maid hears arguing and the brother dies...rather suddenly, with a bullet between the 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 the perfect Watson, 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!
Public Domain (P)1999 Blackstone Audiobooks

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A sweet book but just a bit boring

As the introduction explains, AA Milne wrote this book to amuse his father ? and it reads like a bit like a charade. It does have a slightly Pooh-ish quality to it, but lacks the essential humour of Pooh. It should probably be seen as a literary curiosity. However, the reading by William Sutherland is definitely on the poor side. Were this book to be read by somebody who really camped it up or even sent it up, this could be a very amusing listen. One can?t help thinking Milne intended the book to be transformed into a stage play with people in flannels coming in through French windows, and the reading needs something of that atmosphere to make it swing. Not worth going for if you pay for your books by the unit, but perhaps worth trying if you have a monthly subscription and are interested in the early history of murder stories.

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Unlistenable

Dreadful sound quality, the narration speeds up, slows down and slurs.

And who picked an American actor to read such an essentially English author?

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Poor sound quality

Was really excited to listen to this book but can't bear more than 5 minutes. It sounds like the narrator is running out of batteries in a tunnel, just a slow drone with background hissing. I'd advise a different recording, though perhaps if you have to tech to speed him up it wouldn't be so bad.

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agatha christie could not have done better

What did you like most about The Red House Mystery?

I love agatha christie for as much as her characters as stories, however, this is a distinctly male voice and the main protagonist is entertaining, young and non judgemental

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Red House Mystery?

when the protagonists sidekick had to pretend to go to bed

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A good old fashioned truly English murder mystery!

Like the other readers I only daughter this out as mentioned in a Peter Swanson novel, while nothing alike other than being of crime/murder mystery genre, it was a worthy listen! A real old fashioned truly English who done it! Would most likely be welcomed by Agatha Christie fans, great bonus that it was a credit free listen too.

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1920s classic

It was a pleasant surprise to find this included in my subscription after finding it praised in another classic Japanese detective story (The Honshin Murders’).

The narrator is reasonable but need’s good attention to keep track of the detective and his sidekick.

The story develops a little slowly but is a classic mystery of its time with a good finish which wasn’t obvious, at least to me.

The reading starts with an introduction to the book which is irrelevant and intrusive but takes up only a part of the first chapter and so don’t just skip the first chapter or you will miss the beginning.

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Jolly good show!

I only read this because it was referenced in another book (Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson) and I was pleased to discover it was included free. Who knew that the celebrated author of Winnie the Pooh wrote a detective novel- and a highly entertaining one at that. At times it reads almost like a parody of contemporary detective fiction and the various amateur sleuths that inhabit such works but the puzzle it sets is really quite absorbing.

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A A Milne Interest Only

The style is early PG Wodehouse, the plot thin and quite obvious and the narrator poor. Of interest only because of the author.

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Such a shame!

I think I could really have enjoyed the story but the narrator was terrible and I gave up by second chapter.

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terrible, boring narration

This seemed like quite a nice story, but I couldn't finish it. The narration was so awful. Dull, boring and expressionless.

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