Book description
One of Sir Bohun Chantrey's great passions in life is the stories of
Sherlock Holmes. To celebrate the great man's anniversary, he throws a
party at which the guests are instructed to come as characters from
the detective stories. But several of the guests are more interested
in Sir Bohun's money, and when he announces that he is to marry a poor
governess, things take a turn for the worse, not least when the Hound
of the Baskervilles turns up...
Fortunately Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura, are amongst the
guests and ready to investigate the deepening mystery.
Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over
sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early
member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G. K Chesterton
and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association
Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing
poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in
witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen
Simpson.
