I liked it -- it was fun to read, and I got the feeling Milne had fun writing it, with the Holmes/Watson references and the hobbyist detective and the secret passage and the twist.
It reminded me a bit of the film "Knives Out", which has some of the same having-fun-with-embracing-genre-cliches stuff, although that film has much more of a real crime mystery with a cast of credible suspects.
I had an impression of some mildly annoying sexism in the portrayal of the female servants, but looking back now I can't find it again. It wasn't too blatant, anyway, and not more than one can expect in a book from 1922.
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Originally Posted by issybird
In the end, did anyone not know that the victim was Mark and the murderer Cayley from the get-go?
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I didn't guess it from the beginning, but it did become pretty obvious after a while (I don't remember exactly when I guessed, but by the time they found the clothes in the lake, there was no doubt at all.)