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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.
When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English countryside, stop at a country house to ask for directions, they are most astonished to be ushered in to dinner. It seems they've been invited as a necessity by the superstitious lady of the house, to avoid thirteen guests sitting down to dinner. But the thirteenth guest never arrives, and his headless body is discovered in a wood the next day.
Fortunately, numbered among the original dinner guests is a rather extraordinary psychoanalyst, and sometime detective, by the name of Mrs Bradley...
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English countryside, stop at a country house to ask for directions, they are most astonished to be ushered in to dinner. It seems they've been invited as a necessity by the superstitious lady of the house, to avoid thirteen guests sitting down to dinner. But the thirteenth guest never arrives, and his headless body is discovered in a wood the next day.
Fortunately, numbered among the original dinner guests is a rather extraordinary psychoanalyst, and sometime detective, by the name of Mrs Bradley...
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"Crime writing's best kept secret" (Scotsman)
"If a relaxing diversion is of the essence for a good holiday, a Gladys Mitchell novel is a must...a crime writer who, in her day, ranked with Christie and Sayers" (Daily Mail)
"The Great Gladys" (Philip Larkin)
"There are many other good detective writers...there is Gladys Mitchell with her fascinating Mrs Bradley, ugly as a toad and armed with the latest up-to-date theories of psychology" (Agatha Christie Guardian)
"Particularly delightful... I am delighted to have made Mrs Bradley's acquaintance" (Nicholas Lezard Guardian)
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"If a relaxing diversion is of the essence for a good holiday, a Gladys Mitchell novel is a must...a crime writer who, in her day, ranked with Christie and Sayers" (Daily Mail)
"The Great Gladys" (Philip Larkin)
"There are many other good detective writers...there is Gladys Mitchell with her fascinating Mrs Bradley, ugly as a toad and armed with the latest up-to-date theories of psychology" (Agatha Christie Guardian)
"Particularly delightful... I am delighted to have made Mrs Bradley's acquaintance" (Nicholas Lezard Guardian)
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A country house party...a violent death...a classic murder mystery from one the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
A country house party...a violent death...a classic murder mystery from one the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
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- PublisherTom Stacey
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0854682457
- ISBN 13 9780854682454
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages238
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Here Comes A Chopper by Gladys Mitchell (Hardback, 1972 Reprint Edition) Good condition used 1972 Tom Stacey Reprint Edition Hardback with intact unclipped Dust Jacket. (First published in 1946 by Michael Joseph) Published by Tom Stacey, London. Author: Gladys Mitchell. ISBN: 0854682457. Approx. dims: 220mm h x 145mm w x 27mm d. Intact clean condition outer green pictorial dust jacket with slight creasing, slight rubbing and slight signs of handling. Intact DJ spine. There is some blue water staining to inside DJ. Dust Jacket over good condition intact condition light green boards with silver lettering to spine, some water damage to top right corner of green boards. 238 clean, slightly tanned inside pages of English text, no inscriptions. Page ends stained. Image shown is actual book for sale. Mrs. Bradley #19 - A Vintage Murder Mystery Synopsis: When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English countryside, stop at a country house to ask for directions, they are most astonished to be ushered in to dinner. It seems they've been invited as a necessity by the superstitious lady of the house, to avoid thirteen guests sitting down to dinner. But the thirteenth guest never arrives, and his headless body is discovered in a wood the next day. Fortunately, numbered among the original dinner guests is a rather extraordinary psychoanalyst, and sometime detective, by the name of Mrs Bradley. Seller Inventory # ABE-1682345081237
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