READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? READ A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYMysterious twins...a cricket match murder...a classic detective story from one of the queens of Golden age crime fiction
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell - or 'The Great Gladys' as Philip
Larkin called her - was born in 1901, in Cowley in Oxfordshire. She
graduated in history from University College London and in 1921
began her long career as a teacher. 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.
Her first novel, Speedy Death, was published in 1929 and introduced
readers to Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the detective heroine
of a further sixty six crime novels. She wrote at least one novel a
year throughout her career and was an early member of the Detection
Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy
Sayers.In 1961 she retired from teaching and, from her home in
Dorset, continued to write, receiving the Crime Writers'
Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Gladys Mitchell died in 1983.
A crime writer who, in her day, ranked with Christie and Sayers
*Daily Mail*
Crime writing's best kept secret
*Scotsman*
Mrs Lestrange Bradley...is by far the best and most vital English
female detective
*Observer*
Superbly odd
*Independent*
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