Come Away, Death
Author: Mitchell, Gladys
ISBN: 9780099563280
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY.
Ancient rituals...a severed head...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.
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes, the superlative detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate...
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you'll love Mrs Bradley.
ISBN: 9780099563280
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY.
Ancient rituals...a severed head...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.
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes, the superlative detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate...
Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you'll love Mrs Bradley.
