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by the British writer

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. It is the seventeenth in her long-running series featuring the

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and amateur detective

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Synopsis

While on a walking holiday the brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Bradleys's secretary Laura Menzies encounter a strange local landowner Hector Loudoun who claims he is being pressured to sell ownership of one of his

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* Klein, Kathleen Gregory. ''Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary''. Greenwood Press, 1994. * Miskimmin, Esme. ''100 British Crime Writers''. Springer Nature, 2020. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. Mrs Bradley novels 1944 British novels Novels by Gladys Mitchell British crime novels British mystery novels British thriller novels Novels set in Scotland British detective novels Michael Joseph books {{1940s-mystery-novel-stub