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Mitchell, Gladys

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Gladys Mitchell was born in the village of Cowley, Oxford, in April 1901. She was educated at the Rothschild School, Brentford, the Green School, Isleworth, and at Goldsmiths' and University Colleges, London. For many years Miss MItchell taught History and English, swimming and games. She retired from this work in 1950, but became so bored withour the constant stimulus and irritation of teaching that she accepted a post at the Matthew Arnold School, Staines, where she taught English and History, wrote the annual school play, and coached hurdling. She was a member of the Detection Club, the P.E.N., the Middlesex Education Society, and the British Olympic Assosciation. Her father's family are Scots, and a Scottish influence has appeared in some of her books.

Her first crime novel featuring Mrs. Bradley was published in 1929, when Gladys Mitchell was 28. Gladys went on to be published until 1983 when she died. She wrote 65 Mrs. Bradley novels, a number of children’s books and several books under the pseudonyms Malcolm Torrie and Stephen Hookaby.

Mrs. Bradley Series		Articles	Reviews
1984	No Winding Sheet
1984	The Crozier Pharaohs
1983	The Greenstone Griffins
1983	Cold, Lone and Still
1982	Here Lies Gloria Mundy
1982	Death of a Burrowing Mole
1981	The Death-Cap Dancers
1981	Lovers, Make Moan
1980	The Whispering Knights
1980	Uncoffin'd Clay
1979	Nest of Vipers
1979	The Mudflats of the Dead
1978	Mingled with Venom
1978	Wraiths and Changelings
1977	Fault in the Structure
1977	Noonday and Night
1976	Late, Late in the Evening
1975	Convent on Styx
1974	A Javelin for Jonah
1974	Winking at the Brim
1973	The Murder of Busy Lizzie
1972	A Hearse on May-Day
1971	Lament for Leto
1970	Gory Dew
1969	Dance To Your Daddy
1968	Three Quick and Five Dead
1967	Skeleton Island
1966	The Croaking Raven
1965	Pageant of Murder
1964	Death of the Delft Blue
1963	Adders on the Heath
1962	My Bones Will Keep
1961	The Nodding Canaries
1960	Say It With Flowers
1959	The Man Who Grew Tomatoes
1958	Spotted Hemlock
1957	The Twenty-Third Man
1956	Twelve Horses and the Hangmans Noose
1955	Watsons Choice
1954	Faintley Speaking
1953	Merlins Furlong
1952	The Echoing Strangers
1951	The Devils Elbow
1950	Groaning Spinney
1949	Tom Brown's Body
1948	The Dancing Druids
1947	Death and the Maiden
1946	Here Comes a Chopper
1945	The Rising of the Moon
1944	My Father Sleeps
1943	Sunset over Soho
1943	The Worsted Viper
1942	Laurels are Poison
1941	When Last I Died
1941	Hangman's Curfew
1940	Brazen Tongue
1939	Printer's Error
1938	St. Peter's Finger
1937	Come Away, Death
1936	Dead Men's Morris
1935	The Devil at Saxon Wall
1934	Death at the Opera
1932	The Saltmarsh Murders
1930	The Longer Bodies
1929	The Mystery of a Butchers Shop
1929	A Speedy Death