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Convent on Styx
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Gladys Mitchell |
From fantasticfiction.com: "The nuns of the Order of Companions of the Poor summon eminent psychiatrist and sleuth Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley to investigate a series of anonymous letters, but wh… |
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Ask A Policeman
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Gladys Mitchell,Milward Kennedy,Anthony Berkeley,Dorothy L. Sayers,Helen Simpson,The Detection Club,Helen Simpson,Agatha Christie,Martin Edwards,Cecil John Charles Street |
**Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord C… |
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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
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Gladys Mitchell |
When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher's shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing … |
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The worsted viper
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Gladys Mitchell |
Mrs Bradley is not unaccustomed to receiving fan mail, but the anonymous letter that she opens one morning at breakfast has not been sent by a well-wisher. The letter evokes memories for Mrs Bradley … |
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The dancing druids
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Gladys Mitchell |
Mike O'Hara is a young, handsome distance runner, working with his fellow athletes to catch his cousin, Gerry Gascoyne, in a cross-country game of hare and hounds. Playing a hunch, Mike separates fro… |
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Spotted hemlock
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Gladys Mitchell |
When two male students execute a rag against the nearby Calladale women's agricultural college--a prank involving rhubarb and dead rats--the ladies decide to give the men back some of their own. They… |
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Here lies Gloria Mundy
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Gladys Mitchell |
Writer Corin Stratford meets up with an old college friend, Hardie Keir McMaster, in a countryside churchyard; the scribe is promptly commissioned by McMaster to update information for a series of ho… |
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St. Peter's finger
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Gladys Mitchell |
From the website gladysmitchel.com: "Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley receives a visit from her barrister son, Ferdinand Lestrange, who brings with him a plea for help. The coastal convent and girls'… |
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Death at the opera
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Gladys Mitchell |
From Goodreads: "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… |
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When Last I Died
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Gladys Mitchell |
*"Oh, mother! That wretched woman! After all, she's dead and buried. Why don't you leave well alone?" enquired her son.
"So said the ghost of Joan of Arc to George Bernard Shaw," Mrs. Bradley repli… |
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Winking at the brim
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Gladys Mitchell |
From the webpage gladysmitchell.com "Sir Ferdinand Lestrange's daughter Sally gets invited to join a monster-hunting expedition. The group--led by publisher and folklore enthusiast Sir Humphrey Calsh… |
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