An English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
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Contents
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts (1918)
The Holiday Round (1912)
Mr Pim Passes By, A Comedy in Three Acts (1921)
The Sunny Side (1921)
Second Plays (1921)
Happy Days (1915)
Once a Week (1914)
If I May (1921)
Not that it Matters (1919)
Once on a Time (1917)
The Red House Mystery (1921)
First Plays (1919)
Happy Days (1915)
This book is made up from my contributions to Punch--a casual selection from the four hundred or so which have appeared in the last nine years. It is offered to the American public as a sample of that Punch humour (and perhaps, therefore, British humour) which Americans so often profess not to understand. According to whether they like it or do not like it, I hope they will consider it a representative or an unrepresentative sample.
The Red House Mystery (1921)
The Red House, stately mansion home of Mark Ablett, is filled with very proper guests when Mark's most improper brother returns from Australia. When the maid hears an argument in the study it isn't long before the brother dies... of a bullet between the eyes! Strangely, the study has been locked from the inside, and Mark Ablett is missing. Only an investigator with remarkable powers of observation could hope to resolve this mystery, and Antony Gillingham (with cheerful Bill Beverly at his side) is just the man.
