''When Last I Died'' is a 1941
mystery
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detective novel
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by the British writer
Gladys Mitchell
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. It is the thirteenth in her long-running series featuring the
psychoanalyst
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and amateur detective
Mrs Bradley
Beatrice Adela Bradley is a fictional detective created by Gladys Mitchell. Mrs (later Dame Beatrice) Bradley is Mitchell's most significant and long-lived character, appearing in 66 novels that were published between 1929 and 1975.
Life
Mrs ...
.
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The Observer
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'',
Maurice Richardson
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Early life and education
Richardson was born to a wealthy family; his father, a successful stockjobber, "after retirement and some financial ups and downs" ...
described it as "perhaps Miss Mitchell’s best, most ingenious crime story yet."
Synopsis
After renting a house by the
seaside Mrs Bradley comes across the diary of a former tenant in the house Bella Foxley, once accused of murdering her cousin some years before. Convinced that Bella was unfairly accused, Mrs Bradley takes it upon herself to investigate a supposedly
haunted house
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where the murder has taken place.
References
Bibliography
* 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
1941 British novels
Novels by Gladys Mitchell
British crime novels
British mystery novels
British thriller novels
Novels set in England
British detective novels
Michael Joseph books
Novels set in Hampshire
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