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Mrs. Bradley has dealt with murderers before, but she has always dealt with them as a professional psychologist--coolly, scientifically, almost flippantly. Now, however, the brilliant old lady is fiercely determined to bring a cruel and ruthless murderer to bay. Various members of the Bradley household play significant roles in a…
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Gladys Mitchell is an unjustly neglected “Queen of Crime” who deserves to be mentioned alongside Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the rest.
Her detective, Mrs. Bradley, is a brilliantly eccentric character – as was Mitchell herself! When Last I Died is a characteristically unorthodox Golden Age mystery that sees Mrs. Bradley spurred to investigate a haunted house by discovering a suspected murderer’s diary.
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