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Many mystery fans have read at least a dozen works by Agatha Christie, but probably not one person in 100,000 has ever heard of her Devon neighbor and mentor, Eden Philpotts, let alone read anything by him. More than half a century ago in fall 1962, I happened to read one of the short stories of Philpotts (then recently deceased), and my college roommate and I and one or two close friends briefly joked about his name: “I’m going to read all his novels and write a Ph.D. dissertation on ‘em! I’ll be a famous professor known to the world as ‘The Philpotts Man’!” “Fat chance! I’m gonna beat you to it!” “Oh yeah? Well I’m going to edit THE COMPLETE POEMS & PLAYS OF PHILPOTTS!” Etc. etc. (and of course none of us did any such things).THE RED REDMAYNES (1922) by Eden Philpotts (British, 1862-1960) contains an excellent Fair-Play Puzzle to test readers’ wits. It has two detectives, Mark Brendon, a young British police inspector who had risen rapidly with a string of successful cases, and Peter Ganns, a much older American, who appears in the second half of this rather long novel after Brendon has failed to make any progress.
Careful readers should be able to solve at least half of this mystery, but the closing chapters of THE RED REDMAYNES will still provide two big (credible) surprises for most people. Along the way, there is much to enjoy: e.g., one of the murder victims, Bendigo Redmaynes, considers the late author Herman Melville his favorite companion (at a time before Melville’s work had regained popularity) and re-reads MOBY-DICK over and over again; and when Peter Ganns joins the case in Chapter XI, he delivers a brilliant and very wise lecture to Mark Brendon about the differences between fact and fiction all around us in our ordinary every-day lives.
Philpotts’ writing career began in the latter half of the 19th century when many works of fiction were still 3 vols. long. This mystery novel is nearly 400 pages, and some modern readers will undoubtedly consider parts of it long-winded. My own view is that the first part, dealing with the failures of Mark Brendon, should have been shorted by about one-third in order to give proportionately more space and more emphasis to the successes of Peter Ganns in the second part.
Some modern readers might also object to what could be called “sentimental foolishness” on the part of Mark Brendon in the early chapters. This material didn’t bother me, since it serves a function in the mystery and since, in my experience, many men are often sentimental and/or foolish.
In my judgment, this mystery is virtually a forgotten masterpiece and deserves a letter grade of solid “A”.
POSTSCRIPT: Concerning the AGATHA CHRISTIE CONNECTION, for one thing, to honor and thank him for his help, Christie dedicated her novel PERIL AT END HOUSE (1932) to Philpotts. Furthermore, it dawned on me in the closing chapters of THE RED REDMAYNES that Christie had borrowed a key plot element from this book for her Poirot novel THE A.B.C. MURDERS (1936), her Poirot novelette DEAD MAN’S MIRROR (1937, an expanded version of “The Second Gong,” 1932), and her Poirot short story “The Dream” (1937). The gimmick, which Melville Davisson Post seems to be the first inventor of (in his Uncle Abner story “The Straw Man,” 1915), concerns WHO “invited” a given detective to solve the case and WHY. Other mystery writers who also apparently borrowed it (many, probably, via Christie’s stories) are H. C. Bailey in “The Long Barrow” (1925), Anthony Wynne in “The Dancing Girl” (1926) and “The Gold of Tso-fu” (1926), Cyril Hare (aka Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark) in SUICIDE EXCEPTED (1939), August Derleth in “The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet” (1945), Ronald A. Knox in “The Adventure of the First Class Carriage” (1947), John Dickson Carr in “The House in Goblin Wood” (1947), Patrick Quentin (aka Hugh Wheeler) in “Death on Saturday Night” (1950), Sue Grafton in “She Didn’t Come Home” (1986), Edward D. Hoch in “The Return of the Speckled Band” (1987), Stuart M. Kaminsky in “The Man from Capetown” (2001), and David Stuart Davies in “The Adventure of the Whitrow Inheritance” (2008). And this very same gimmick has again been recently recycled in the film SHERLOCK: THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE (2016; directed by Douglas Mackinnon; starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman).
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The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 9781446089088 Books Reviews
A florid saccharine waste of time. As a literary critic H. L. Mencken refused to read works by this author. I now know why.
Dated but well plotted.
Selected by E.F. Bleiler to be included in his Dover mystery series reprints in the 1970s. Highly recommended reading. If you like this book, you will also enjoy Heir Presumptive by Henry Wade.
It was unusually difficult for me to rate this book, but on balance I conclude it is quite good. It isn't fast-paced action, but does present a twisty mystery.
Some of the descriptive passages recall some of the best of Dickens, and some of the philosophy recalls George Eliot. But the apparently careful rationality here is really muddy and inconsistent.
Mark Brendon is a rising star in Scotland Yard, a 35 year old guy who has become successful and somewhat famous. One day in the early 20's, he's down in Dartmoor on vacation, when something unusual happens one man disappears in what seems to be a murder, but the prime suspect is also gone. The supposedly murdered man's wife asks Brendon for help, and so he starts looking into the mystery. Also, he falls for her, hard. The suspect happens to be the woman's uncle, a strange man suffering from shell shock after service in WWI. Neither man is found, and suspecting the other two uncles might be in danger, Jenny, the young wife, goes to live with one of them, uncle Bendigo Redmayne, who lives in a countryhouse in the steep coast of Southwestern England.
There, Brendon is introduced to the handsome boat driver Doria, Uncle Bendigo's employee. Doria is helpful and talkative, but Brendon instinctively dislikes him. After a while, the affaire fades away, there being no notice of the men. One day Brendon pays a visit to Jenny and Bendigo. He's still in love with her. On his way back, Brendon sees the suspect Uncle, Bob, who runs away apparently afraid. Thus, the search begins anew, with more murders, strange interviews and no results. The action moves then to the beautiful lakes in Italy near the Swiss border, when the manhunt continues. An American detective is called to help the unproductive Brendon, and eventually the mystery is solved, with tragic consequences.
This is a very fine detective novel, on of Borges' favorite (and he was an expert on the genre). The locations, the mood and the scenery are perfect for the kind of story it tells. The characters are pretty well developed, and as with any good book, it goes beyond the mere plot to reveal something relevant about human nature. Hopefully this novel will gain a renewed public in the future, since it is very well written and entertaining. Much recommended.
First off, this is one novel as opposed to a series of stories, as the title might suggest. The book was published in the early 1920s and the style of writing reflects that. I doubt the modern reader can relate to an age when police officers were actually polite and appeared caring while investigating a crime. Aside from that, the story is well crafted, and reminds me of one of the classic Ellery Queen stories which appeared a few years later. There are various plot twists, including the rather novel one of the Scotland Yard investigator being baffled and having to turn to an American detective for guidance. This is the first novel by Phillpotts that I have read, but if the rest of his work is as imaginative as this one, I wouldn't hesitate to buy more of his books.
Many mystery fans have read at least a dozen works by Agatha Christie, but probably not one person in 100,000 has ever heard of her Devon neighbor and mentor, Eden Philpotts, let alone read anything by him. More than half a century ago in fall 1962, I happened to read one of the short stories of Philpotts (then recently deceased), and my college roommate and I and one or two close friends briefly joked about his name “I’m going to read all his novels and write a Ph.D. dissertation on ‘em! I’ll be a famous professor known to the world as ‘The Philpotts Man’!” “Fat chance! I’m gonna beat you to it!” “Oh yeah? Well I’m going to edit THE COMPLETE POEMS & PLAYS OF PHILPOTTS!” Etc. etc. (and of course none of us did any such things).
THE RED REDMAYNES (1922) by Eden Philpotts (British, 1862-1960) contains an excellent Fair-Play Puzzle to test readers’ wits. It has two detectives, Mark Brendon, a young British police inspector who had risen rapidly with a string of successful cases, and Peter Ganns, a much older American, who appears in the second half of this rather long novel after Brendon has failed to make any progress.
Careful readers should be able to solve at least half of this mystery, but the closing chapters of THE RED REDMAYNES will still provide two big (credible) surprises for most people. Along the way, there is much to enjoy e.g., one of the murder victims, Bendigo Redmaynes, considers the late author Herman Melville his favorite companion (at a time before Melville’s work had regained popularity) and re-reads MOBY-DICK over and over again; and when Peter Ganns joins the case in Chapter XI, he delivers a brilliant and very wise lecture to Mark Brendon about the differences between fact and fiction all around us in our ordinary every-day lives.
Philpotts’ writing career began in the latter half of the 19th century when many works of fiction were still 3 vols. long. This mystery novel is nearly 400 pages, and some modern readers will undoubtedly consider parts of it long-winded. My own view is that the first part, dealing with the failures of Mark Brendon, should have been shorted by about one-third in order to give proportionately more space and more emphasis to the successes of Peter Ganns in the second part.
Some modern readers might also object to what could be called “sentimental foolishness” on the part of Mark Brendon in the early chapters. This material didn’t bother me, since it serves a function in the mystery and since, in my experience, many men are often sentimental and/or foolish.
In my judgment, this mystery is virtually a forgotten masterpiece and deserves a letter grade of solid “A”.
POSTSCRIPT Concerning the AGATHA CHRISTIE CONNECTION, for one thing, to honor and thank him for his help, Christie dedicated her novel PERIL AT END HOUSE (1932) to Philpotts. Furthermore, it dawned on me in the closing chapters of THE RED REDMAYNES that Christie had borrowed a key plot element from this book for her Poirot novel THE A.B.C. MURDERS (1936), her Poirot novelette DEAD MAN’S MIRROR (1937, an expanded version of “The Second Gong,” 1932), and her Poirot short story “The Dream” (1937). The gimmick, which Melville Davisson Post seems to be the first inventor of (in his Uncle Abner story “The Straw Man,” 1915), concerns WHO “invited” a given detective to solve the case and WHY. Other mystery writers who also apparently borrowed it (many, probably, via Christie’s stories) are H. C. Bailey in “The Long Barrow” (1925), Anthony Wynne in “The Dancing Girl” (1926) and “The Gold of Tso-fu” (1926), Cyril Hare (aka Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark) in SUICIDE EXCEPTED (1939), August Derleth in “The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet” (1945), Ronald A. Knox in “The Adventure of the First Class Carriage” (1947), John Dickson Carr in “The House in Goblin Wood” (1947), Patrick Quentin (aka Hugh Wheeler) in “Death on Saturday Night” (1950), Sue Grafton in “She Didn’t Come Home” (1986), Edward D. Hoch in “The Return of the Speckled Band” (1987), Stuart M. Kaminsky in “The Man from Capetown” (2001), and David Stuart Davies in “The Adventure of the Whitrow Inheritance” (2008). And this very same gimmick has again been recently recycled in the film SHERLOCK THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE (2016; directed by Douglas Mackinnon; starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman).
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