The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne · first published 1922
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This is probably one of the top classics of "golden age" detective fiction. Anyone who's read any mystery novels at all will be familiar with the tropes -- an English country house in the first half of the twentieth century, a locked room, a dead body, an amateur sleuth, a helpful sidekick, and all the rest. It's a clever story, ingenious enough in its way, and an iconic example of Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers -type murder mysteries. If you've read more than a few of those kinds of books, you might find this one a little predictable, but it's fun despite that. It's particularly of no
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…tail -r is to reverse the output, it's otherwise in approximately reverse alphabetical order of author's first name. Output is Hadji Murád - Leo Tolstoy Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne The Moon Pool - A. Merritt Fables - Aesop Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie ...
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