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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.
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THREE QUICK AND FIVE DEAD.
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Condition: FINE. Reprint, first thus. The 41st novel in this series featuring Dame Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a psychoanalyst and author, originally published in 1968. Mitchell was - along with other female members of the Detection Club - Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - one of the most prominent authors of that era, as well as one of the most long-lived and prolific. She was unique in having a professional woman as her detective. Laura Gavin is walking on a quiet country road with her son's young Irish wolfhound. He suddenly bolts and is found guarding the body of a young murdered woman. Uncommon is all printings. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 92887
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0727816497I3N00