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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Random House (Digital)

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781448190461

RRP: £10.43

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 30, 2014

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Three Quick and Five Dead

Gladys Mitchell

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Rediscover 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.

Reviews of Three Quick and Five Dead

"Richly quirky books, full of dramatic plotting, vigorous behavior and ironic opinions" Glasgow Herald "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" New York Times "I hope Vintage will keep on bringing them out – she's just such an interesting writer" Desperate Reader

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Gladys Mitchell

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.