The Red Redmaynes (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A character-driven mystery romance of family secrets and class divides in early 20th-century DevonshireBy Eden Phillpotts
Length3h 50m
About this audiobook
Set in the early 1920s, The Red Redmaynes follows a chain of murders haunting a flame-haired clan from misty Dartmoor to Italy. Phillpotts stages a duel between Mark Brendon, a competent British officer, and Peter Ganns, an incisive American sleuth, using their perspectives to probe memory, identity, and misplaced certainty. The prose is lucid and quietly sardonic, rich in weather and custom, while the plot embraces early Golden Age virtues: fair clueing, bold misdirection, and a final, coolly logical reversal. Eden Phillpotts, the prolific Devon novelist and dramatist, brings to his crime writing the observational patience of his Dartmoor sequence. His close study of moorland geology, speech, and codes shapes the book's moral weather, where character is tested as sternly as alibi. Writing at the hinge between Victorian regionalism and interwar detection, he fuses naturalist curiosity with a playwright's timing, producing a narrative both atmospheric and exact. Recommended to readers who relish classic detection grounded in place, The Red Redmaynes rewards close attention to testimony, motive, and landscape. It will satisfy admirers of Conan Doyle and Sayers alike, and interest scholars tracing the genre's evolution from regional novel to intricate puzzle.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5The Red Redmaynes (pt. 1)
2Introduction
6The Red Redmaynes (pt. 2)
3Synopsis
7Analysis
4Historical Context
8Reflection
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