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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
George Jeffries is attempting to guide a coach party of eccentrics around Scotland via the treacheous mountain known as The Devil's Elbow. But when one of the touring party is found dead, suspicion falls on the hapless Jeffries. His fiancee goes in tears to her employer, who happens to be the remarkable psychoanalyst and private investigator Mrs Bradley. Fortunately for all concerned Mrs Bradley takes the case, and employs all her singular talents in the task of finding the true murderer.
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
George Jeffries is attempting to guide a coach party of eccentrics around Scotland via the treacheous mountain known as The Devil's Elbow. But when one of the touring party is found dead, suspicion falls on the hapless Jeffries. His fiancee goes in tears to her employer, who happens to be the remarkable psychoanalyst and private investigator Mrs Bradley. Fortunately for all concerned Mrs Bradley takes the case, and employs all her singular talents in the task of finding the true murderer.
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.
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Review:
"She is one of the Big Three women detective writers" (Observer)
"Mrs. Bradley and her dapper chauffeur, George, drive about the countryside in a midnight-blue Rolls-Royce with full bar, and wherever they go, they find murder" (New York Times)
"Easily the best woman detective in fiction" (News Chronicle)
"I hope Vintage will keep on bringing them out - she's just such an interesting writer" (Desperate Reader)
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"Mrs. Bradley and her dapper chauffeur, George, drive about the countryside in a midnight-blue Rolls-Royce with full bar, and wherever they go, they find murder" (New York Times)
"Easily the best woman detective in fiction" (News Chronicle)
"I hope Vintage will keep on bringing them out - she's just such an interesting writer" (Desperate Reader)
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
A coach party of eccentrics...a murder and a puzzling clue...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction.
A coach party of eccentrics...a murder and a puzzling clue...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction.
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- PublisherSevern House Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0727800930
- ISBN 13 9780727800930
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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