Death and the Maiden (Mrs. Bradley, Book 20) by Gladys Mitchell

By Gladys Mitchell

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of many 'Big Three' lady crime fiction writers along Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. whilst former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a potential sighting of a water-naiad he insists that his spouse, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's younger ward Connie, go back and forth with him to Winchester looking for the nymph. As tensions upward thrust among Connie and Edris, Prissie invitations the well known psychoanalyst, and unrivalled detective, Mrs Bradley to hitch them and unofficially notice Edris and his growing to be obsession. Then younger boys are came upon drowned and hypothesis mounts that the naiad is luring them to her deaths. Can Mrs Bradley get to the bottom of the mysteries hidden in the river? Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid...If you're keen on Poirot and leave out Marple, you'll love Mrs Bradley.

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By Gladys Mitchell

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of many 'Big Three' lady crime fiction writers along Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. whilst former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a potential sighting of a water-naiad he insists that his spouse, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's younger ward Connie, go back and forth with him to Winchester looking for the nymph. As tensions upward thrust among Connie and Edris, Prissie invitations the well known psychoanalyst, and unrivalled detective, Mrs Bradley to hitch them and unofficially notice Edris and his growing to be obsession. Then younger boys are came upon drowned and hypothesis mounts that the naiad is luring them to her deaths. Can Mrs Bradley get to the bottom of the mysteries hidden in the river? Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid...If you're keen on Poirot and leave out Marple, you'll love Mrs Bradley.

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