The Red House Mystery

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The mystery is fine, but the light amusement of the amateur sleuth and his enjoyment at his own cleverness in figuring it out all along the way is deftly delivered.

Well, it started off slow; my experience with the author AA Milne is, of course, Winnie the Pooh. This is totally different :-).
When I finally got into the fact that this was a mystery, and not a children's book, I started totally enjoying it. It was clever and surprising. He drew from the Sherlock Holmes idea a lot, even to the extent that one of the characters was playfully referred to as "Watson", and the twists and misleading aspects were engaging and startling. Who would ever have guessed that he was so diverse…

Milne is better taken in smaller doses. His short stories (both for kids and adults) are great, but this novel suffers from a lack of direction in the middle and a rushed conclusion. Still, given his writing style it was enjoyable enough to download from Project Gutenberg and read in short snippets while I was otherwise indisposed.

Supposedly the book that triggered the 'Golden Age' of mysteries. We found fault with it, possibly because so much of what came after was better.