<div><B>A refreshing blend of wit and intrigue, A. A. Milne&rsquo;s only mystery novel is a masterpiece</B><BR /><BR />Mark Ablett is not really a snob&mdash;not the worst kind of snob, at least. He simply prefers artists to everyone else, and the discussion of his own creative abilities to any other talk whatsoever. His vanities are easily forgiven especially since he is generous with his money&mdash;inherited not from his clergyman father but from a neighborhood spinster who took a liking to him&mdash;and he is always willing to play the host at the Red House, his delightful country estate.<BR /><BR />One lazy summer morning, as his guests enjoy breakfast before a round of golf, Mark opens a surprising letter. His brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, gone some fifteen years now, is back from Australia and plans to call at the Red House that very afternoon. It is the first that Mark&rsquo;s friends and servants have heard of a brother, but that shock is nothing compared to what happens next: After being shown into an empty office to wait for the master of the house, Robert is shot dead. Mark is nowhere to be found, not unlike the pistol that fired the fatal bullet. It is up to Tony Gillingham, man of leisure, and his young friend Bill Beverley to assume the roles of Sherlock and Watson and solve a crime so clever that Alexander Woollcott pronounced it &ldquo;one of the three best mystery stories of all time.&rdquo;<BR /><BR />Beloved children&rsquo;s author A. A. Milne was a great fan of detective stories. His first and last attempt at the genre is an absolute delight&mdash;one of the most original and charming novels of the Golden Age of crime fiction. <BR /><BR />This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR /></div>

The Red House Mystery

<div><B>The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh shares his musings on some of the matters of his day in this delightful collection of essays, short stories, and poems.</B><BR />  <BR /><I>Not That It Matters</I> is &ldquo;a collection of essays from the end of that extraordinary silver age of English belles-lettres at the turn of the last century, when men such as Shaw and Belloc earned their daily bread by scribbling in newspapers and magazines about anything they could scrape a thousand or so words out of: socialism, dogs, the weather, how they celebrated Christmas, capital punishment, Wagner. For those who like this sort of thing, this volume is very nearly perfect. There are pieces on snobbery, oranges, cricket, bad fiction, &lsquo;Smoking as a Fine Art&rsquo; (&lsquo;My first introduction to Lady Nicotine was at the innocent age of eight&rsquo;), chess, thermometers, Holy Writ (&lsquo;Isaiah was the ideal author. . . . He kept to one style&rsquo;), and&mdash;prophetically&mdash;those bores who fetishize &lsquo;good brown ale&rsquo;&rdquo; (<I>National Review</I>).<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Milne writes on goldfish, daffodils, writing personal diaries, the charm of lunch, intellectual snobbery, and even what property program presenters would now call &lsquo;kerb appeal&rsquo;&mdash;but which was simply &lsquo;looking at the outside of a house&rsquo; in Milne&rsquo;s day. . . . It is still a delight and a joy to have <I>Not That It Matters</I> and its ilk waiting on my shelf.&rdquo; &mdash;Stuck in a Book</div>

Not That It Matters

<div><P><B>A. A. Milne&rsquo;s beloved collection of poetry&mdash;featuring the very first appearance of Winnie-the-Pooh.</B></P> Composed of dozens of poems by the author who has delighted generations of children and adults alike with characters such as Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Eeyore, <I>When We Were Very Young </I>is a warm, whimsical journey through childhood that includes such classic verses as &ldquo;Halfway Down,&rdquo; &ldquo;Teddy Bear&rdquo; (which introduced Pooh to the world), &ldquo;At the Zoo,&rdquo; &ldquo;The King&rsquo;s Breakfast,&rdquo; &ldquo;Shoes and Stockings,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Buckingham Palace,&rdquo; plus many more.</div>

A. A. Milne

Books By A. A. Milne (3 Books)

The Red House Mystery

Not That It Matters

When We Were Very Young

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Books By A. A. Milne (3 Books)

The Red House Mystery

Not That It Matters

When We Were Very Young

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