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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956), English writer of wide-ranging variety, now remembered almost entirely for four books of children's stories and poems, many featuring the character [[Winnie the Pooh|Winnie-the-Pooh]]. The process had already begun within his lifetime, to his considerable annoyance.▼
▲A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882 - 1956), English writer of wide-ranging variety, now remembered almost entirely for four books of children's stories and poems, many featuring the character [[Winnie the
He first came to fame as a humorist, and was a contributor to ''[[Punch]]'' (as was the cartoonist E. H. Shepard, who went on to illustrate his ''Pooh'' books). He also achieved considerable success as a playwright, and wrote several successful novels. The detective novel ''The Red House Mystery'' was quite successful in its day, though now is mainly remembered for having been held up by [[Raymond Chandler]], along with ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', as an exemplar of ludicrous whodunnit plotting. Two of his short stories were adapted for ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''.
▲* ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie the Pooh]]''
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* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: The protagonist of ''The Red House Mystery''.
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* [[Henpecked Husband]]: The king in ''The Ugly Duckling''.
* [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]: "Disobedience"
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: ''Bad sir Brian Botany''.
* [[Playing Cyrano]]: In ''The Ugly Duckling'', the hero and heroine ''both'' use one.
* [[Sleeping Dummy]]: In ''The Red House Mystery'', [[Amateur Sleuth|Anthony]] and [[The Watson|Bill]] do this before going off to tail a suspect at night, so that the suspect (who is staying in the same house as they are) won't realize they're onto him. Bill is pretty proud of his sleeping dummy, but Anthony's is so convincing that it even fools Bill.
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