THE A. A. MILNE MYSTERY OMNIBUS (2-BOOKS-IN-1)

Rare crime fiction whodunit from the creator of Winnie the Pooh.The Red House Mystery is set in an English country house where Mark Ablett is hosting a house party consisting of a widow and her young daughter a retired major an 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 look up his friend Bill decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Holmes to Beverly's Watson; and they progress almost playfully through the novel while both clues and theories multiply.Four Days Wonder is a classic comedy mystery novel by Milne completing his forays into crime fiction and compiled for the first time. A young woman obsessed with murder mysteries goes to visit her aunt at a country house only to find her dead. Invigorated by the excitement she launches an investigation.…light amusing in the Punch style written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks - Raymond Chandler