Mrs Bradley
Beatrice Adela Bradley is a fictional detective created by Gladys Mitchell. Mrs Bradley is Mitchell's most significant and long-lived character, appearing in 66 novels that were published between 1929 and 1975.
Life
Mrs Bradley is the first female character to be both a detective heroine and a member of an 'established profession'. A fully qualified medical doctor and a psychoanalyst, she is a consultant for the Home Office, and she also acts as an amateur detective.Mrs Bradley lives in the village of Wandles Parva, located in the New Forest. Her sidekicks include her chauffeur George Cuddleup, and her secretary Laura Menzies.
Books
Speedy Death, The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop, The Longer Bodies, The Saltmarsh Murders, Death at the Opera, also known as Death in the Wet The Devil at Saxon Wall, Dead Men's Morris, Come Away, Death, St Peter's Finger, Printer's Error, Brazen Tongue, Hangman's Curfew, When Last I Died, Laurels Are Poison, The Worsted Viper, Sunset Over Soho, My Father Sleeps, The Rising of the Moon, Here Comes a Chopper, Death and the Maiden, The Dancing Druids, Tom Brown's Body, Groaning Spinney, The Devil's Elbow, The Echoing Strangers, Merlin's Furlong, Faintley Speaking, Watson's Choice, Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose, The Twenty-Third Man, Spotted Hemlock, The Man Who Grew Tomatoes, Say It with Flowers, The Nodding Canaries, My Bones Will Keep, Adders on the Heath, Death of a Delft Blue, Pageant of Murder, The Croaking Raven, Skeleton Island, Three Quick and Five Dead, Dance to Your Daddy, Gory Dew, Lament for Leto, A Hearse on May-Day, The Murder of Busy Lizzie, A Javelin for Jonah, Winking at the Brim, Convent on Styx, Late, Late in the Evening, Noonday and Night, Fault in the Structure, Wraiths and Changelings, Mingled with Venom, Nest of Vipers, The Mudflats of the Dead, Uncoffin'd Clay, The Whispering Knights, The Death-Cap Dancers, Lovers, Make Moan, Here Lies Gloria Mundy, The Death of a Burrowing Mole, The Greenstone Griffins, Cold, Lone and Still, No Winding-Sheet, The Crozier Pharaohs, Sleuth's Alchemy, Cases of Mrs. Bradley and OthersThe last-named is a collection of all but one of Gladys Mitchell's short stories from 1938 to 1956, many previously uncollected; edited and with a comprehensive introduction by Nicholas Fuller.