Three Quick and Five Dead

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Description

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the ‘Big Three’ female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.A young woman’s body is discovered in the woods. She has been strangled and a quotation from Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is pinned to her chest with a knitting needle. Soon after, another woman’s body is found, in similar circumstances. Then a third body, a fourth, a fifth… What links the victims? Scotland Yard is baffled, and all the ingenuity and unorthodox methods of famous detective Mrs Bradley are needed in the hunt for the ruthless killer.Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid… If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.

Additional information

Weight 0.149 kg
Dimensions 1.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

224

Publisher

Year Published

2014-4-21

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099584026

About The Author

Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. 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.

Richly quirky books, full of dramatic plotting, vigorous behavior and ironic opinions

Other text

Mrs. Bradley and her dapper chauffeur, George, drive about the countryside in a midnight-blue Rolls-Royce with full bar, and wherever they go, they find murder

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