Book description
Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley
is enjoying a relaxing holiday on the beautiful island of Hombres
Muertos. Then a cave high up in the mountains, containing the
mummified bodies of twenty three dead kings, acquires an extra corpse
overnight and Mrs Bradley is delighted to be called into action.
As her investigations begin it quickly becomes clear that almost
everyone on the island has a motive for murder, and a dark secret they
are desperate to conceal. But who is the real killer?
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
