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Coni
, May 19, 2020
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I had no idea that the author of Winnie the Pooh also wrote a mystery novel. I really had a lot of fun reading this one. It was a parody of English mysteries and I found it rather amusing.
The main character of Anthony Gillingham is a young man with the means to pick up random jobs here and there, just to see what they are like. He is in between one of his odd jobs, when he stumbles into a murder scene while coming to visit his friend Bill at The Red House. He startles one of the house's residents who has heard a gunshot and is trying to get inside a locked room to find out what happened. After finding out it is a murder, Anthony decides he wants to act like Sherlock Holmes and make Bill his Watson.
These two go out investigating the murder while not letting the police investigators or anyone else in the house know what they were up to. It was fun to read about them coming up with theories and also trying to follow up on their theories while sneaking around, especially when they had an idea who they thought might be the murderer.
I really wanted to read more about Anthony and Bill going on to solve other crimes, but sadly this seems to be the only mystery that Milne wrote.
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