A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell β one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Twin brothers Francis and Derek Caux are orphaned at the age of seven, and soon after separated by their grandfather, Sir Adrian, who all but abandons deaf-and-dumb Francis and takes the handsome Derek under his wing. But now the pair are brought together by a pair of murders and the attentions of the witchlike psychoanalyst-detective, Mrs Bradley. Do the brothers share a guilty conscience?
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, youβll love Mrs Bradley.
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Review
"A crime writer who, in her day, ranked with Christie and Sayers" Daily Mail "Crime writing's best kept secret" Scotsman "Mrs Lestrange Bradley...is by far the best and most vital English female detective" Observer "Superbly odd" Independent
About the Author
Gladys Mitchell was born in the village of Cowley, Oxford, in April 1901. She was educated at the Rothschild School in Brentford, the Green School in Isleworth, and at Goldsmiths and University Colleges in London. For many years Miss Mitchell taught history and English, swimming, and games. She retired from this work in 1950 but became so bored without the constant stimulus and irritation of teaching that she accepted a post at the Matthew Arnold School in Staines, where she taught English and history, wrote the annual school play, and coached hurdling. She was a member of the Detection Club, the PEN, the Middlesex Education Society, and the British Olympic Association. Her fatherβs family are Scots, and a Scottish influence has appeared in some of her books.