The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - Softcover
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing moneylender and when the peerless detective and renowned psycholanalyst Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects. It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have been wandering about Manor Woods, home of the mysterious druidic stone on which Sethleigh's blood is found splashed, on the night he was murdered, but can she eliminate the red herrings and catch the real killer?
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.
When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing moneylender and when the peerless detective and renowned psycholanalyst Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects. It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have been wandering about Manor Woods, home of the mysterious druidic stone on which Sethleigh's blood is found splashed, on the night he was murdered, but can she eliminate the red herrings and catch the real killer?
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.
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"Superbly odd" (Independent)
"Crime writing's best-kept secret" (Scotsman)
"Among the most revered names in British mystery fiction" (Washington Post)
"The Great Gladys" (Philip Larkin)
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"Crime writing's best-kept secret" (Scotsman)
"Among the most revered names in British mystery fiction" (Washington Post)
"The Great Gladys" (Philip Larkin)
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY.
Provincial politics and butchery...blackmail and murder...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
Provincial politics and butchery...blackmail and murder...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
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