Here Comes a Chopper
Appearance
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Author | Gladys Mitchell |
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Language | English |
Series | Mrs Bradley |
Genre | Mystery |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1946 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | The Rising of the Moon |
Followed by | Death and the Maiden |
Here Comes a Chopper is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The plot revolves around a traditional country house mystery involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse.
In a review in the New Statesman, Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.