Here Comes a Chopper
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:17th Apr '14
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READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY A country house party...a violent death...a classic murder mystery from one the queens of Golden Age crime fiction
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...
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...
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 *
ISBN: 9780099582243
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Weight: 245g
352 pages