Three Quick and Five Dead

Gladys Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0099584026 / ISBN 13: 9780099584025

Published by Vintage, 2014

About this Item

Three Quick and Five Dead | Gladys Mitchell | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2014 | Vintage | EAN 9780099584025 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Quick and Five Dead
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099584026
• ISBN 13: 9780099584025
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 129H x 13D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 256 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

About this title

Synopsis

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover 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, youll love Mrs Bradley.

About the Author

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.