Book description
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined
to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the
hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley
collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival
scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous
children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns
up in a box of snakes, Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate...
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.
