by Gladys Mitchell
I'm not sure what I think of this. It dragged a bit in the middle, mostly as the plot was so odd. So much was crammed in that by the time I got to the end, I barely remembered the beginning. It seems like another book entirely that started with a dead man – who was really a woman – in the guest ...
Alastair Bing’s guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. I have been reading this series out of order and only now got around to reading the first book, Speedy Death. I am not con...
bookshelves: britain-england, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, fraudio, amusing, winter20092010, published-1929 Read in January, 2010 Dr Beatrice Bradley is elderly, ugly, has darkly sharp insights and an extremely wicked tongue. 1929 genteel country house guests are shocked by the death of...
bookshelves: britain-england, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, fraudio, amusing, winter20092010, published-1929 Read in January, 2010 A country house, a corpse. And the butler's not to blame. A Gladys Mitchell 'whodunnit' with Leslie Phillips and Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:00am Monday 4th...
A country house, a corpse. And the butler's not to blame. A Gladys Mitchell 'whodunnit' with Leslie Phillips and Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:00am Monday 4th JanuaryGreat Fun - someone murdered a dummy with a poker... oh noes!