Month: November 2013

Gladys Mitchell and Mrs Bradley, an acquired taste?

Gladys Mitchell (1910-1983) wrote 66 novels featuring her detective Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a psychoanalyst with a brilliant mind, incisive views and an unorthodox view of crime and punishment. A member of the Detection Club, Mitchell was ranked alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. Unlike Christie and Sayers,…