Author:Gladys Mitchell
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Alastair Bing's guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests search the house, a body is discovered in a bath, drowned. The body is that of a woman, but could the corpse in fact be Mountjoy? A peculiar and sinister sequence of events has only just begun...
This is Gladys Mitchell's first book and it marks the entrance of the inimitable Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, psychoanalyst and unorthodox amateur sleuth, into the world of detective fiction. But instead of leading the police to the murderer, she begins as their chief suspect.
She is one of the Big Three women detective writers
—— ObserverBegins like a parody of a country house murder. But you soon see that the author means the jokes, and also develops both a tricky mystery and a quite solid argument about crime and its disruption of society. Then she brings it all to a head in a very remarkable conclusion. From the start, Mitchell was outstanding.
—— Glasgow HeraldA crime writer who, in her day, ranked with Christie and Sayers
—— Daily MailExtremely well constructed story of murder and detection...Mrs Bradley is the prize piece
—— Daily NewsGladys Mitchell can always be relied upon for a packed and meaty novel, and an intelligent one at that
—— GuardianMrs Bradley is full of surprises. Ugly she may be, but dull, never
—— Barry Turner , Daily MailShrewd, intelligent, interesting, and really rather funny
—— Kirsty Hewitt , NudgeA writer of towering gifts . . . le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle
—— IndependentJohn le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons . . . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré's gift to us
—— Evening StandardThrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed
—— Sunday ExpressUtterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful
—— Sunday MirrorThrilling
—— ExpressChoreographed with unsettling precision
—— MetroWhen I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind
—— Aung San Suu KyiPlunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down
—— Metro[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency
—— Simon Sebag Montefiore , Metro 'Books of the Year'John Le Carré at his masterful best . . . nobody does it better
—— Ben Macintyre , The Times 'Books of the Year'Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . . le Carré writes with laconic elegance
—— Kate Saunders , The Times 'Books of the Year'I found myself wondering if Boyd had outdone Fleming.
—— Nicholas Lezard , Guardian[Boyd is] an ideal writer of James Bond novels, and this one, his first, is very good
—— William Leith , Evening StandardPerfectly judged homage
—— Mail on SundayA brand new James Bond adventure combining all the glamour and excitement of Fleming’s original novels with the masterful storytelling of William Boyd
—— Western Morning NewsA very good piece of literary ventriloquism, with a great baddie
—— Heathrow ExpressFleming’s James Bond lives again in this perfectly judged homage
—— Mail on Sunday
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