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Автор Глэдис Митчелл
Contents
Cover
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Gladys Mitchell
Title Page
Chapter One: Vagaries of a Rich Relation
Chapter Two: The Gathering of the Clan
Chapter Three: Rabbit and Javelin
Chapter Four: Friday Night and Saturday Morning
Chapter Five: Abrupt Termination of an Inglorious Career
Chapter Six: Great-aunt Puddequet is Happy
Chapter Seven: But Inspector Bloxham is Not
Chapter Eight: Irritating Attitude of a Lady Old Enough to Know Better
Chapter Nine: Kost and Caddick, or the Babes in the Wood
Chapter Ten: Night Birds
Chapter Eleven: What Happened to Anthony?
Chapter Twelve: Mrs Bradley visits the Scene of Crime
Chapter Thirteen: May Fair
Chapter Fourteen: The Little Mermaid
Chapter Fifteen: Mrs Bradley Listens In
Chapter Sixteen: And the Cowes Jumped Over the Moon
Chapter Seventeen: Noughts and Crosses
Chapter Eighteen: Questionable Behaviour of a Champion Cyclist
Chapter Nineteen: Autobiography of a Murderer
Chapter Twenty: The Story of the Second Roman Gladiator
Chapter Twenty-One: Mrs Bradley Takes the Bun
More Vintage Murder Mysteries
Copyright
About the Book
Great Aunt Puddequet was reputed to be enormously wealthy. It was also a tradition in the family that she was extraordinarily mean. So when the malicious old bird summons her grand-nephews to perform in a games tournament in order to secure their inheritances, they gloomily oblige. Before long, the country house games are interrupted by murder.
The police are baffled, but fortunately Mrs Bradley, an unusual psychoanalyst with a flair for sleuthing, has begun to take an keen interest in the Puddequet Olympics.
About the Author
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. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and attributed her interest in witchcraft to the influence of her friend the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
ALSO BY GLADYS MITCHELL
