Book description
Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a
local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is
found murdered. Despised by both pupils and peers, there is no shortage
of suspects but can the redoubtable Mrs Bradley use tact, wit and just a
touch of black magic to make the boys and their masters divulge the
truth? 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.
