READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAs the country readies for war in Europe, murder strikes much closer to home...a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell - or 'The Great Gladys' as Philip
Larkin called her - was born in 1901, in Cowley in Oxfordshire. She
graduated in history from University College London and in 1921
began her long career as a teacher. Her hobbies included
architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund
Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend,
the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
Her first novel, Speedy Death, was published in 1929 and introduced
readers to Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the detective heroine
of a further sixty six crime novels. She wrote at least one novel a
year throughout her career and was an early member of the Detection
Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy
Sayers.In 1961 she retired from teaching and, from her home in
Dorset, continued to write, receiving the Crime Writers'
Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Gladys Mitchell died in 1983.
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
*Guardian*
Crime writing's best kept secret
*Scotsman*
Gladys Mitchell can always be relied upon for a packed and meaty
novel, and an intelligent one at that
*Guardian*
Easily the best woman detective in fiction
*News Chronicle*
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