| The Red House Mystery Contributor(s): Milne, A. A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1537703889 ISBN-13: 9781537703886 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 710 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.37 lbs) 118 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 57237 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alan Alexander Milne (/1882 -1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. |