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Spotted Hemlock
First edition
Author Gladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
Series Mrs Bradley
GenreMystery
Publisher Michael Joseph
Publication date
1958
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Twenty-Third Man 
Followed by The Man Who Grew Tomatoes 

Spotted Hemlock is a 1958 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. [1] [2] It is the thirty first in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been considered one of Mitchell's best novels along with other works such as The Saltmarsh Murders, Death at the Opera and The Rising of the Moon. [3]

Synopsis

The students of Calladale, a female agricultural college have been ragged by a local men's college, and are plotting their revenge when the body of one of their students is found hidden away in a local pub. Dame Beatrice Bradley is called in by her nephew, one of the teachers at Calladale, to investigate.

References

  1. ^ Reilly p.1089
  2. ^ Magill p.1235
  3. ^ Hanson p.176

Bibliography

  • Hanson, Gillian Mary. City and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery. McFarland, 2015.
  • Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Spotted Hemlock
First edition
Author Gladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
Series Mrs Bradley
GenreMystery
Publisher Michael Joseph
Publication date
1958
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Twenty-Third Man 
Followed by The Man Who Grew Tomatoes 

Spotted Hemlock is a 1958 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. [1] [2] It is the thirty first in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been considered one of Mitchell's best novels along with other works such as The Saltmarsh Murders, Death at the Opera and The Rising of the Moon. [3]

Synopsis

The students of Calladale, a female agricultural college have been ragged by a local men's college, and are plotting their revenge when the body of one of their students is found hidden away in a local pub. Dame Beatrice Bradley is called in by her nephew, one of the teachers at Calladale, to investigate.

References

  1. ^ Reilly p.1089
  2. ^ Magill p.1235
  3. ^ Hanson p.176

Bibliography

  • Hanson, Gillian Mary. City and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery. McFarland, 2015.
  • Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.



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