#195 in Crime & mystery
The Red House Mystery
- 211
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Red House Mystery” is an enjoyable, lightly witty puzzle and Milne’s only venture into detective fiction. The question is less who committed the crime than how, and the book keeps its eyes on the mechanics. Most readers find it pleasant golden-age entertainment, though some of them consider the characters static. Some liken it to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels.
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About the book
The Red House Mystery is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 57 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 15 | 26% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 42 | 74% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Red House Mystery?
It has 211 pages — shorter than 97% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
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