Mitchell, Gladys Spotted Hemlock ISBN 13: 9780312753504

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When the badly decayed body of a young woman, a student at an agricultural college, is discovered in an abandoned coach, Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, whose pig-farming nephew holds a temporary position at the college, is called in to investigate

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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.

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  • PublisherSt Martins Pr
  • Publication date1985
  • ISBN 10 0312753500
  • ISBN 13 9780312753504
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages239
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