A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover 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...
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099582243Number of pages: 352Weight: 245 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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Crime writing's best kept secretIf 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 SayersThe Great GladysThere 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 psychologyParticularly delightful... I am delighted to have made Mrs Bradley's acquaintance
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