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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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1 author picked When Last I Died as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
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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