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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
Gladys Mitchell
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ASIN: 1601870000 |
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The dancing druids
Gladys Mitchell
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- An engrossing whodunit that is suitable for a nice day at the beach or for translation into a PBS movie
- Despite "Death in the Wet," Not Wet Behind the Ears
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Death at the Opera: (Death in the Wet)
Gladys Mitchell
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An engrossing whodunit that is suitable for a nice day at the beach or for translation into a PBS movie.......2006-04-03
Charged with the mission of capturing mystery writers from the Golden Age, the Rue Morgue Press has now reprinted such greats as Dorothy Bowers, Constance & Gwenyth Little, Maureen Sarsfield, Margaret Scherf and many others. Gladys Mitchell is among those greats, having been compared to Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Mitchell's output was 66 mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley, a dashing and colorful woman with knowledge of both psychology and the law. DEATH AT THE OPERA was filmed for British television, although details of the book were changed. Diana Rigg portrayed Mrs. Bradley.
Calma Ferris, the unassuming arithmetic teacher in Hillmaston Coeducational Day School, has decided to underwrite the school's latest production, THE MIKADO. She is pressed into service as Katisha, a part for which she is woefully unprepared. Ferris has an uncanny knack of offending people, and thus ends up murdered before the second act of the opera. Enter Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, called in by the publicity-minded headmaster to ascertain just who killed the quiet and virtuous Miss Ferris. But first, Mrs. Bradley has to take matters in hand:
"'It seems to me,' Mrs. Bradley remarked, 'that the evidence in support of the theory that Miss Ferris was murdered in the lobby is sufficiently strong to warrant further investigation, but not sufficiently tangible to offer to the authorities. I have reason to believe'-she took out her notebook-'that, as the result of a collision in the corridor, Miss Ferris had her glasses broken and sustained a small deep cut just beneath one eye. She went into the water lobby to bathe the cut, and I have not found out yet that anyone went with her.'"
Mitchell's style of writing is quite formal and extremely articulate, and her command of the plot and facts points to an exacting and logical mind. Mrs. Bradley is a kind woman who has no time for fools, and her character is at once a little repulsive (with claw type of hands and a beak like face) and fascinating. She puts her suspects at their ease until they reveal themselves. DEATH AT THE OPERA is an engrossing whodunit that is suitable for a nice day at the beach or for translation into a PBS movie. Angela Lansbury might be a great Mrs. Bradley!
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Despite "Death in the Wet," Not Wet Behind the Ears.......1999-06-08
The first Gladys Mitchell I ever read, and, again, one of her best. The plot involves three separate strands, both built around the various notions of death by drowning: the death of a snooping schoolmistress in the bathroom at the performance of The Mikado; the death of a madwoman in an asylum who fell into an ornamental pond; and an acquitted wife killer, George Bryan Cutler, based on George Joseph Smith, murdering two other people, and attempting to murder Mrs. Bradley. The ending is ingenious, with one of the most incredible motives ever to grace a detective fiction novel, though the book shares some similarities with "Speedy Death" and "St. Peter's Finger," in the scene of the crime and the method.
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Sleuth's Alchemy: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others
Gladys Mitchell
Manufacturer: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, Inv.
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Sleuth's Alchemy.......2007-03-20
It's a collection of short stories. classical, very well written stories of detection, most involving Mrs. Bradley. If you like British, classical mystery stories, you'd love this book.
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Uncoffin'd Clay
Gladys Mitchell
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- 30th Mitchell, 23rd Man, One of 20 Best Mitchells
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The Twenty-third Man
Gladys Mitchell
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30th Mitchell, 23rd Man, One of 20 Best Mitchells.......2000-03-14
This is Mitchell's 30th book, and, being her 30th book, it is in many ways more of a celebration of her style than any of her previous '10' books (e.g. Skeleton Island (1967), Late, Late in the Evening (1976), or Lovers Make Moan (1982)) - it bears all the complexity of the best Mitchells, the psychological portraits (much less of caricatures than Ruth Rendell's), and the skilled evocation of place. Printer's Error (1939) and Death and the Maiden (1947) are also celebrations of Mitchell's work - but they are more to do with the anthropological side of Mitchell's work than with the marked complexity that marks this book.
The setting is the stylised island of Hombres Muertos in the Canaries - the island of dead men to which Mitchell's unique detective, the psychologist and witch Dame Beatrice Bradley, comes for a holiday. (Islands were always a favourite setting with Mitchell - e.g. Come Away Death (1937), The Worsted Viper (1942), Skeleton Island (1967), Lament for Leto (1971), The Murder of Busy Lizzie (1973), The Whispering Knights (1980), and Lovers Make Moan (1982)). The island resembles nothing more than a lunatic bin, with a full cast of murderers (one by manslaughter in England, now come to the island for a rest), a wife whose unwanted husband was murdered by thugs while her brother stood by and watched, lunatics (a mad botanist and a mad ornithologist named Mrs. Bluetit Angel), and a Don Juan who goes missing and is later found stabbed to death, his body dressed as one of the 23 dead kings in the cave - a cave to which an expedition was organised - an expedition which provides a clue.
Dame Beatrice investigates the crime, and finds that every suspect has secrets to hide - bastardy, murder, secret liaisions, the lot. The complexity does not strain believability, but rather it enhances the enjoyment.
The murder plot is ingenious, complex and slightly improbable. The island is evoked memorably, the characters are one of the best group of suspects outside of an Agatha Christie (who is a fairly dull writer and uninspired compared to Mitchell), and Dame Beatrice's investigations are fascinating.
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Cold, lone, and still (A Nightingale mystery in large print)
Gladys Mitchell
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- Late Mitchell - But Good Mitchell
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Here Lies Gloria Mundy
Gladys Mitchell
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Late Mitchell - But Good Mitchell.......2000-03-09
This is a return to the old Mitchell, though more of a 'cosy' than Mitchell used to be. It deals with witchcraft (three witches - Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, the Chaucerian Aunt Eglantine, and the mysterious Gloria Mundy, half her hair red, the other half black, her ancestor burnt as a witch). Gloria Mundy arrives unannounced at the house of her former lover, various accidents happen, and Gloria Mundy's body is found at the dower house - a red wig lying on the corpse. This is good mystification - but the next event is superb. Gloria Mundy, now deceased, is seen working in a dress-shop by a young journalist narrating the story. If Gloria is dead, how did she manage to come back from the dead? This is good Mitchell - good mystification, bizarre events, and a good plot. While similar to Helen McCloy's classic THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, the book is distinctive - and the ending is excellent: surrealistic and dream-like with witchcraft, voodoo dolls, and ancient British barrows mingling... The only reason that the book does not have 5 stars is that better Mitchells exist: COME AWAY, DEATH; THE RISING OF THE MOON; DEATH AT THE OPERA; THE 23RD MAN; ST. PETER'S FINGER.
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- Great Gladys
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When Last I Died (Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
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Great Gladys.......2001-10-16
This is one of Mitchell's best, I think, combining what appear to be two of her favourite themes, children and weirdness. I'm only sorry she didn't throw in a few nuns, too, which would have enhanced the weirdness factor almost to the point it reached in _St. Peter's Finger_. This novel never ceased to intrigue and fascinate me, and it has one of her ghastlier and more surprising denouments, as well. Well worth an evening's read.
A Mitchell Classic.......2000-05-02
Both Philip Larkin and Patricia Craig considered this to be one of the best Gladys Mitchells, dealing as it does with old newspaper reports and a haunted house.
The supernatural elements come in from the beginning, when the reptilian psychologist (and witch?) Mrs. Bradley finds the diary of an acquitted murderess who later committed suicide in a pond - accused of pushing her cousin from the window of a haunted house.
The plot is one of Mitchell's best, involving one of the best uses of a haunted house in detective fiction (Mitchell uses the M. R. James approach), missing juvenile delinquents, an old woman choked to death on grated carrot. Mrs. Bradley untangles a convoluted maze of impersonation and insanity in her own inimicable fashion - "Mrs. Bradley is a far better detective than some who have achieved world-wide fame," said the Times Literary Supplement.
In short, one of Mitchell's best books, with a first-class setting, one of her best plots, and probably the nastiest murderer in the canon.
What happened at Borley Rectory?.......1997-10-28
Fictional account trying to explain the mysteries behind Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. Originally published in 1941, two years after the rectory burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances.
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Spotted Hemlock
Gladys Mitchell
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ASIN: 0770104835 |
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- Mitchell, W. O.
- Mitchison, Naomi
- Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
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- Montalbán, Manuel Vázquez
- Monteleone, Thomas F.
- Montgomery, L.M.
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