When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, minus its head, laid out in the village butcher shop, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing money lender and when the unconventional detective Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no sh...
Dr Beatrice Bradley is elderly, ugly, has darkly sharp insights and an extremely wicked tongue. 1929 genteel country house guests are shocked by the death of their famous guest, world traveler Mountjoy, in a bathtub. Suspects include his quiet (but extremely competent) fiancee Eleanor, pompous Al...
#4 Mrs. Bradley, psychologist, rural England; classic amateur sleuth but twisted. Overall this was a thoroughly entertaining skewering of detective story styles of the period, done with wit and a wicked sense of humor. Another peculiar visit with Mrs. Bradley, that irascible psychologist, doctor,...
Mrs. Bradley has dealt with murderers before, but she has always dealt with them as a professional psychologist--coolly, scientifically, almost flippantly. Now, however, the brilliant old lady is fiercely determined to bring a cruel and ruthless murderer to bay. Various members of the Bradley hou...
"Wealthy and eccentric Sir Bohun Chantrey numbered among his enthusiasms an absorbing admiration for Sherlock Holmes. To celebrate that great man's anniversary, he gave a party at which guests were invited to impersonate characters from the Holmes stories. A good time would, no doubt, have been h...
Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school performance and, in recognition of her generous offer to finance the production, their meek and self-effacing arithmetic mistress is offered a key role. But when she disappears mid-way through the opening night performance and is lat...
When an unpopular teacher at a private boy’s school is found murdered, only Mrs. Bradley can solve the mystery in this classic crime caper from the redoubtable Gladys Mitchell.
Set in the New Forest. A young man named Richardson is spending a few days under canvas, awaiting the arrival of a friend, before transferring to an hotel. One night he returns to camp to find a dead man in his tent and immediately telephones the police. But when they arrive the original body -- ...
They were a couple of lively, friendly, agreeable, wire-haired fox-terriers, great favourites with the students, who groomed and exercised them and who teased the plump, good-natured Celia about them, alleging that she kept them to protect her virginity from the Warden’s predatory advances. As th...
She had set out, however, in the spirit of adventure which characterized her outlook, and the hotel and Kitty, between them, reconciled her to the greyness of an atmosphere which seemed to be compounded in equal parts of drizzle and soot. ‘Well, Dog,’ said Kitty with candour, ‘I don’t know why on...
Far safer ’twere to stay at home!’ ROBERT HERRICK, To His Muse ‘NOW DON’T WASTE time swearing,’ said Laura. ‘Put on your clothes and come downstairs. How bright is this girl? The kind to go off with any handsome stranger?’ ‘No.’ ‘All right then. We add her brains to ours. Don’t have a fit. Just b...
Light and even frivolous conversation seemed to be expected from everyone. Carstairs and Mrs Bradley incurred a good deal of chaff from the two young men on the lengthy and boring game they had invented. Dorothy was cross-questioned as to her share in the proceedings, but no one seemed to care ab...
The stationmaster at Market Longer remembered Celia’s arrival on the late, or rather the very early, train, and it seemed well within the bounds of probability that she had been unable to procure a conveyance from the station to the house. To check Clive’s movements after he had left the garage w...