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The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne

At a charming English estate, a playful weekend gathering turns deadly—and a genial amateur must untangle truth from clever misdirection. Wry humor meets classic clue-hunting as polite conversation masks dangerous undercurrents. The Red House Mystery offers a nimble, elegant puzzle that delights in the game of deduction.

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... a fair-play, locked-room puzzle unraveled by an observant amateur?

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

If you loved how Tony Gillingham pieces together the Red House shooting—reconstructing the timeline with Bill, probing the office’s hidden access, and sifting real clues from red herrings—you’ll relish how Joseph Rouletabille tackles an “impossible” attack behind a bolted door in The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Like Tony’s cool-headed reasoning against Inspector Birch’s official line, Rouletabille methodically tests alibis, measurements, and movements around the château corridor until the “impossible” becomes inevitable.

... light, bantering sleuthing that winks at the genre while chasing real clues?

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

Enjoyed Tony and Bill’s breezy, tongue‑in‑cheek banter while they poke into the Red House office, compare footprints, and cheerfully outpace the police? Gervase Fen and poet Richard Cadogan bring that same buoyant wit to Oxford in The Moving Toyshop, chasing a corpse that seems to vanish along with the entire shop. The wisecracks come fast, but the clueing is real—much like Tony’s playful “rehearsal” of the crime that still lands the solution squarely on fair evidence.

... a witty detective–sidekick partnership tackling clues together?

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

If the growing camaraderie between Tony Gillingham and Bill Beverley—staking out corridors, testing alibis, and sharing eureka moments—was your favorite part, The Hound of the Baskervilles gives you that dynamic in spades. Holmes and Watson split duties on the moor much as Tony delegates to Bill at the Red House, swapping observations and theories until the pattern of footprints, sightings, and rumors resolves into fact.

... a village-bound whodunit with a tight circle of suspects and clue-driven detection?

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Drawn to the intimate country‑house circle around Mark and Robert Ablett—servants, guests, and villagers—where Tony combs rooms, gardens, and that suspicious office for small but telling clues? In The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple dissects a single village’s gossip, alibis, and household routines after Colonel Protheroe is shot. Like the Red House inquiry, the setting is close‑knit, the suspect list tight, and every tiny inconsistency matters.

... a climactic twist that reframes every earlier clue without cheating?

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

If the late‑stage reveals in the Red House case—hidden routes, swapped identities, and the way Tony’s experiment reinterprets earlier clues—delighted you, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the gold standard. Poirot’s village investigation is packed with planted details that seem harmless until the end snaps them into a new configuration, delivering that same clean, fair surprise without breaking the rules.

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