The Dancing Druids
Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Mitchell
Mrs. Bradley is at her devastating best, saurian perhaps but very human.
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Laurels Are Poison
Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Mitchell
Mrs Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, psychologist and detective, has become the warden of a house in a girls' training college in order to investigate the disappearance of a previous warden. Only her intelligence and perspicacity can coax the skeletons out of their cupboards.
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Here Lies Gloria Mundy
Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Mitchell
Here Lies Gloria Mundy. When Anthony Wotton and his wife, Celia, hold a weekend gathering of friends and relatives at their home in the Cotswolds, they little suspect that Gloria Mundy will show up. Unheralded and uninvited, Gloria Mundy is a strange woman from the host's past whose appearance is followed by a series of domestic disagreements and peculiar accidents, culminating in the discovery of a charred corpse in the burnt-out dower house on the grounds of the mansion. Is Gloria Mundy a witch, as one of her ancestors is claimed to have been?
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Cold, Lone and Still
Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Mitchell
Comrie and Hera are planning to marry but, before taking the risk of setting up as legal life-partners, they decide on an unusual test of compatibility: they embark on a long, sometimes arduous pilgrimage along part of Scotland's West Highland Way. The fact that such a project is thought necessary indicates that doubts exist--and matters are not helped when, lost on the moors in a heavy mist they come upon the corpse of a murdered man.
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