Summary
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY.
A cave containing the bodies of 23 mummified kings acquires another corpse overnight… a classic murder mystery from one of the queens of Golden Age crime fiction.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the ‘Big Three’ female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is en…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099563273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099563274 |
| Author: | Gladys Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
One can usually rely on Miss Gladys Mitchell for something unexpected and in The Twenty-Third Man she certainly provides
One can usually rely on Miss Gladys Mitchell for something unexpected and in The Twenty-Third Man she certainly provides * Guardian *
Bizarre, fascinating and entertaining * Tatler *
Crime writing’s best-kept secret * Scotsman *
About The Author
Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell - or ‘The Great Gladys’ as Philip Larkin called her - was born in 1901, in Cowley in Oxfordshire. She graduated in history from University College London and in 1921 began her long career as a teacher. 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.
Her first novel, Speedy Death, was published in 1929 and introduced readers to Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the detective heroine of a further sixty six crime novels. She wrote at least one novel a year throughout her career and was an early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy Sayers.
In 1961 she retired from teaching and, from her home in Dorset, continued to write, receiving the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Gladys Mitchell died in 1983.
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