The Butcher Shop (Enigmatic Moon Mysteries)

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Cold, Lone and Still No Winding-Sheet A Javelin for Jonah The Death-Cap Dancers Here Lies Gloria Mundy Pageant of Murder Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose Lovers, Make Moan The Croaking Raven The Whispering Knights Faintley Speaking Adders on the Heath Death of a Delft Blue Nick sent me this best-to-worst GM list with personal notes on many of the titles. With his permission, I'm posting the list with his impressions intact, as they are enjoyably astute! The Devil at Saxon Wall 3. Death and the Maiden the quintessential Mitchell 4.

The Saltmarsh Murders 5. Death at the Opera spoof on the genre, with least likely person; brilliant clues; Mrs B and the wife murderer 6. When Last I Died see above 7. The Rising of the Moon could be higher, could be lower, need to reread Superb read, but slightly arbitrary murderer? Another one I need to reread! Laurels are Poison or is it better than The Longer Bodies? Here Comes a Chopper goes to pieces towards the end, until then one of the best Dance to Your Daddy best s GM — could be higher, maybe not?

The Croaking Raven good fun, but solution not memorable My Father Sleeps lots of fun, but confused; self-indulgent at end 4- Sunset over Soho is it higher? Fascinating, but flawed Fault in the Structure could be lower Speedy Death good plot, but very melodramatic! Here Lies Gloria Mundy another one to reread — liked it a lot in The Worsted Viper good outdoors thriller, lots of Mrs. Croftsian boat chase at end Gory Dew good, clever plot, but still feels minor Spotted Hemlock one I read in a day, so hard to judge — arbitrary murderer, lots of interviewing, but thought it a pleasant read; critics love it A Javelin for Jonah good setting, but supremely arbitrary murderer Lament for Leto rewrite of Come Away, Death; characters different; enjoyable, but minor Three Quick and Five Dead hated it first time round — put me off GM for a couple of months until I found Saltmarsh — now pleasant if average read Mingled with Venom pleasant but forgettable Noonday and Night forgettable — made no impression; of course, very stressed at the time [first year of uni] Lovers, Make Moan very late — too much dialogue, irritating child, average solution No Winding-Sheet very forgettable, police procedure, arbitrary murderer Pageant of Murder very boring, arbitrary murderer Say It With Flowers plot makes no sense, very boring Laurels Are Poison 3.

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop 4. The Rising of the Moon 5. Dance to Your Daddy 6. A Hearse on May-Day 7. Merlin's Furlong 8.

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The Greenstone Griffins 9. Tom Brown's Body Death at the Opera The first letters are handwritten, subsequent ones typed. Jonathan points out that their spiteful content usually springs from a kernel of truth; e. Bradley theorizes upon the source of the poison pen letters, she makes the acquaintance of the Inspector assigned to the suspicious death and pesters him into exhuming the recently interred body.

The finding of dog collars and leads stuck into a rabbit hole provides for Mrs. Bradley further proof of her theory, and as she gets into riding dress to accompany her nephew on a fox hunt, she sets a trap that will flush out the guilty party and run it to ground. There was the question of the boat-trip undertaken by some members of the coach party, the nylons found in a caravan mattress, the jewels smuggled in a barrel of fish, and other seemingly irrelevant discoveries.

But relevant they were, and Mrs. Bradley was soon well on the way to solving one of her most brilliant cases. The Echoing Strangers Most people overlooked the sullen deaf-mute teenager Francis Caux…until he led police to the scene of a murder. It was psychoanalyst and detective Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley who found a clever way to communicate with Francis, thus learning that his recent fear of water stemmed from a body chained to the underside of a boathouse dinghy.

But how did Francis know the location of the body? Even more puzzling is the discovery of a second murder linked to another Caux teen, Derek, in a nearby village. Bradley suspects that the teenage Caux boys are somehow related, and soon must consider the possibility that they are coconspirators…in murder. And at Carford, not long before, an unfortunate undergraduate, a pupil of Professor Havers, had died—violently also, since he appeared to have cut his own throat….

It was fortunate indeed that three other undergraduates, involved innocently enough in these bloody affairs, had as a friend a nephew of Mrs. Fortunate for them, for they certainly needed help; fortunately for Mrs. On a rainy, miserable night, down-on-his-luck author George Mandsell ducks into a public telephone box, intending to call his publisher and ask for an advance. As soon as he is inside, the phone begins to ring.

Answering it, he discovers that the caller is a Miss Faintley, and in no uncertain terms she tells him to pick up a parcel from a neighboring station and to deliver it to a shady shopowner in the village. Before Mandsell can explain that she has mistaken him for another errand-runner, she rings off. Spotting the chance to make a little money while also perhaps finding inspiration for a story idea in the adventure, the penniless author sets out to retrieve the package. A short while later, thirteen-year-old Mark Street is dismayed to find his least favorite school teacher staying at the same hotel where he and his family are passing their summer holiday.

Out for an early morning hike, Mark and Laura discover a deserted house surrounded by woods on one side and coastline on the other. Laura alerts her employer, Mrs. Beatrice Bradley, and the old detective soon picks up the scent. If the body is that of Miss Faintley, who killed her, and why? After a visit to the caves at Lascaux, the consultation of some botany books, a little seafaring surveillance, and the befriending of both Mr.

Mandsell and a Latin-speaking parrot, Mrs. Bradley is ready to deliver a solution. Mrs Bradley investigates the murder of a young woman following a Sherlock Holmes themed party. Fortunately Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura, are amongst the guests and ready to investigate the deepening mystery. Maybe his horse got really annoyed? John Mapstead kept twelve horses at his riding-stables. Eight were for hire, three came and went mysteriously in connection with race meetings and one was for his own use.

It was in the loose-box of the latter that they found his battered body, and the horse was squealing mad and had blood on its hoof. The Twenty-third Man Available in paperback, ebook and audible editions. Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is enjoying a relaxing holiday on the beautiful island of Hombres Muertos. Then a cave high up in the mountains, containing the mummified bodies of twenty three dead kings, acquires an extra corpse overnight and Mrs Bradley is delighted to be called into action.

As her investigations begin it quickly becomes clear that almost everyone on the island has a motive for murder, and a dark secret they are desperate to conceal. But who is the real killer? Do headless horsemen use poison? But when the badly decayed body of a young woman—a Calladale student, to judge from the badge on her jacket—is discovered in an abandoned coach, it becomes obvious that something much more sinister then a prank has been played.

Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, psychiatrist and consulting psychologist to the home office, whose pig farming nephew Carey holds a temporary position at the college, is called in to investigate. Her second conclusion is that the murder victim is not at all who she was originally thought to be…. The Man Who Grew Tomatoes Available in hardcover and ebook editions. Hugh Camber, claiming the family estate as his own following an inheritance, does not receive quite the warm welcome that he has expected.

Housestaff members give their notice, the chauffeur is released following a wave of insubordination, and the villagers seem reluctant to account for the tension that accompanies the house. Slowly, Hugh gathers up enough information to draw some conclusions. Hal Camber, to claim the estate for herself and her rather insufferable young son. There are rumours of unpleasantness between a dismissed Camber tutor and a local farm girl. Added to that, much speculation is given to the demise of Paul Camber: As prophesied by the Camber housemaids, Mrs.

Hal arrives at the estate with her son in tow, and with the intention of settling in. Sympathetic but resolute, Hugh locks horns with this domineering relation and eventually sends her back to her home. Shortly thereafter, villagers start receiving anonymous letters which accuse Hugh of the murder of his relatives. Hugh already suspects the exiled aunt, but, as Dame Beatrice points out, it is curious that the letters specifically refer to murder when accusations of other ill behaviours would blacken a name equally well. After all, both Paul and Stephen Camber were accorded rulings of accidental death.

And then there are the tomatoes.

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But from where did these intoxicating fruits originate? And how did they find their way into the Camber house? Dame Beatrice uses her knowledge of poisons, salmon fishing, agriculture, pig farming, and the deviousness of human nature to solve this agreeable countryside mystery. Say It With Flowers Two leading characters in this detective novel are Phlox and Marigold Carmichael, a pair of dilettante Bohemians who wish to find a Romano-British treasure trove.


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While digging in Hampshire, they unearth a skeleton which they show as a Romano-British exhibit. However, Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley is so doubtful of its origin that she has tests made and discovers the bones to be those of a person killed within the present decade. The Nodding Canaries Dame Beatrice is summoned by schoolmistress Alice Boorman, who has found herself in a bit of a predicament.

Out of sight much longer than expected, Alice begins to worry about her charges; a search finds the teachers unconscious from the heavy presence of butane or calor gas within the shafts. Concerned that she may be accused of trying to do in her job rivals, Alice appeals to Dame Beatrice, who is quick to assure her that the gas was meant for someone else.

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She proves this by conducting the police to the body of Oliver Breydon-Waters, walled up in an underground alcove at the prehistoric site. The elderly detective focuses on the Nodding archaeological society, and soon learns that Breydon-Waters was not well-liked. Had the man known something which led to his demise? Or had his illicit activities caught up with him? As Dame Beatrice digs deeper, she uncovers a murderer whose motive may be sincere but whose actions are disturbingly deadly. My Bones Will Keep A little later, Laura is caught in heavy rain, which cuts short her exploration of Highland scenery.

Fate deposits her on the strange island of Tannasgan—Island of Ghosts—and she shares dinner with an even stranger companion, a red-bearded Scot who calls himself Malcom Donalbain Macbeth. Making her way to the rowboat that carried her to the island, she is surprised to find another stranger hiding in the boathouse.

The pair escape to shore as the sound of bagpipes builds from a dirge to a frenzied reel, then violently, abruptly cuts off. A young journalist named Grant—the man in the boathouse—dogs the ladies during their investigation, pleading with Laura to offer him an alibi for the murder. The trail leads to a menagerie of carvings on a neighbouring island, but the arresting figures of the werewolf, gryphon, and basilisk there remain silent with their secrets. Adders on the Heath Another candidate for worst Mitchell?

Dame Beatrice receives a letter from her grandnephew, Denis Bradley, and relates its contents thusly to Laura over breakfast: He was late getting to the hotel and the friend slept in a small tent until Denis arrived. A dead man was found in the tent one night. Richardson recognised him, but did not tell the police so. However, by the time the police arrived at the tent, the body had been exchanged for another which Richardson did not recognise.

Now he and Denis have discovered the first body. They want us to go along and look into the matter. Death of a Delft Blue Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, a renowned psychoanalyst and detective, has a penchant for making the most unusual acquaintances in the most unlikely places. The plot and characters are sketched in in a way so impressionistic as to make you feel like you're reading a poorly constructed synopsis, the resolution depends on profoundly unconvincing psychoanalysis, and the whole thing is just flimsy tosh.

Gladys Mitchell 's psychologist-detective Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley has fallen into undeserved obscurity. I'm hoping that all of books penned by the woman once known as "the great Gladys" come back into print and are picked up by Audible. Bradley is frequently described in saurian terms. She's yellow with age, curmudgeonly in disposition, and decidedly not a sweet old lady. However, her observations -- i Gladys Mitchell 's psychologist-detective Mrs. However, her observations -- in addition to being spot on -- tend to be quite funny.

His body then turns up gruesomely butchered in the window of the local butcher's shop, and Mrs. Bradley decides to get to the bottom of things. That proves difficult as Sir Rupert's skull keeps turning up in all the wrong places. One suspect after the other keeps moving the skull to dispel suspicion from him- or herself, adding to the hilarity. I read the Audible. To read one Gladys Mitchell book is to become hooked.

However much I enjoyed this one, my favorite still remains The Saltmarsh Murders. But I've promised myself that I shall read all 66 of the Mrs. After my last less than successful Mrs Bradley read, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this. This is another reread, and I remembered that the first time I read this, I was really annoyed with it. It started out irritatingly -- two separate people see the obvious suspect hiding a spade and then heading into the woods at night to dig a grave right after telling a really obvious lie about his cousin with who he quarrelled going to America, and they both decide, with no consultation, that hey, he's a nic After my last less than successful Mrs Bradley read, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this.

It started out irritatingly -- two separate people see the obvious suspect hiding a spade and then heading into the woods at night to dig a grave right after telling a really obvious lie about his cousin with who he quarrelled going to America, and they both decide, with no consultation, that hey, he's a nice guy, they should cover for him and not tell anyone about this.

The second half of the book got better. There were only a couple of minor irritations, mostly caused by Mrs Bradley's need to score points off the police in a completely unnecessary way, and also by her resolution of the murder, which relied heavily on monomania. I was also frustrated with how slow the police were. There is a wood beside the murdered man's house. He was seen walking into the wood with obvious suspect, and never seen again. Searching the wood should have been the first thing the police did!

I think the book was saved for me because I enjoyed the characters of Felicity, Aubrey, the kleptomaniac vicar and Margery. Mar 13, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy rated it liked it. I was reminded of Dorothy Sayers' intricate, even convoluted plotting and PG Wodehouse's eye for human folly. A quietly sardonic novel with a memorable, startlingly amoral sleuth.

Do not expect a typical cozy mystery as much as a fond send-up of the genre, couched in an elegantly devious mystery. Jan 10, Les Wilson rated it really liked it. For me, how a crime book should be written. Very little gore or intimate personal relationship. They get on with telling you the story. Second in this Mrs. Bradley series and the victim is the disliked owner if Manor House. There is no shortage of suspects and scandal and Mrs.


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Bradley is able to sort it out in due time. I'm fascinated at how slightly "off" both Mrs. Bradley mysteries that I have read have been. The characters speak in a similar style to those other Golden Era detective novels - "Oh I say! What a bally throw that was! So what is different? Mitchell adds a twist of shocking strangeness that was not common in the early s.

In the first book, there is a trans character - a woman who has been living as a man and having relationships with women - and no one really bats an eye other than to be somewhat vaguely embarrassed by the whole situation. In this book, the body is dismembered and found hanging on hooks. That is more gruesome than the usual poisoning by arsenic or blow to the head with a heavy candlestick. I don't dislike these sort of twists - I like it. It adds some excitement and freshness to what can be a tired format.

I've been reading up on Mitchell since I discovered her books and I think this quote from Disclaimer magazine explains her best. My edition has the Independent quoted as calling the book 'Superbly odd' on its front cover. While I can agree wholeheartedly with the 'odd', I'm not so convinced of the 'superbly' I'd add a warning for those who come to the book having loved the wonderful Mrs Bradley character created by Diana Rigg and the screenwriters for TV Jul 27, Christine rated it liked it. I'm torn about this book.

It was published in , and I really enjoyed most of the characters and the village setting. Unfortunately, I found Mrs. Bradley, the seemingly omniscient amateur detective, a but unpleasant. This novel read like a modern parody of a Golden Age mystery, with way too many extraneous plot devices and red herrings.

Overall, I'm glad I read it, but I didn't love it. Apr 05, Helen Smith rated it it was ok. Jul 22, Robert Richmond rated it it was amazing. Jan 30, Polly rated it liked it Shelves: Decent book, but a rather confusing solution. Oct 30, Christine Cody rated it really liked it. With all its red herrings, misplaced clues, scattered body parts including a missing skull! This novel was Gladys Mitchell's second Mrs.

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Bradley mystery of 66! Although renowned during her lifetime, Mitchell was more or less forgotten for two decades following her death. In a reflection of her renaissance, our local library has adding With all its red herrings, misplaced clues, scattered body parts including a missing skull!

In a reflection of her renaissance, our local library has adding to more Bradley books from only 10 a year ago to 23 and seemingly still growing. She writes with such humor: She reminded him of some dreadful bald-headed bird he had seen in a picture at some time But when the woman One day perhaps Mitchell will be as familiar as Christie to the reading public.

In the meantime, I trust that Golden Age Detective aficionados already count her among their favorite authors and the singular Mrs. Bradley one of their fondest characters! Jan 22, Cynthia rated it liked it Recommends it for: Ardent mystery fans who have exhausted all other options.

I was prompted to read Gladys Mitchell's Mrs.