The Red House Mystery
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The Red House Mystery is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel.
First edition
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the
The Red House Mystery
…theories abound. The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944), criticised Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler…
Chandler c. 1943
A blue plaque marks the house in Cathedral Square where Chandler stayed in Waterford, Ireland.
Raymond and Cissy Chandler's tombstone