Mystery

The Red House Mystery

by A. A. Milne

Before Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne wrote one detective novel: a brother back from Australia, a shot behind a locked office door, and two young friends playing Holmes and Watson in a country house. It is light, clever and cheerfully aware of its own genre. There is also a secret passage, which is why it lives here.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1872. In the public domain in the United States.