Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (Mitchell Gladys)(Paperback)

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the ''Big Three'' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When Rupert Sethleigh''s body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren''t particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing moneylender and when the peerless detective and renowned psycholanalyst Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects. It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have been wandering about Manor Woods, home of the mysterious druidic stone on which Sethleigh''s blood is found splashed, on the night he was murdered, but can she eliminate the red herrings and catch the real killer?Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.
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