The Devils Elbow - Softcover
Sphere. 1991. 3.50 pounds cover price.
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Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell - or `The Great Gladys' as Philip Larkin called her - was born in 1901, in Cowley in Oxfordshire. She graduated in history from University College London and in 1921 began her long career as a teacher. 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. Her first novel, Speedy Death, was published in 1929 and introduced readers to Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the detective heroine of a further sixty six crime novels. She wrote at least one novel a year throughout her career and was an early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy Sayers.In 1961 she retired from teaching and, from her home in Dorset, continued to write, receiving the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Gladys Mitchell died in 1983.
Review:
"She is one of the Big Three women detective writers" * Observer * "Mrs. Bradley and her dapper chauffeur, George, drive about the countryside in a midnight-blue Rolls-Royce with full bar, and wherever they go, they find murder" * New York Times * "Easily the best woman detective in fiction" * News Chronicle * "I hope Vintage will keep on bringing them out - she's just such an interesting writer" * Desperate Reader *
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- PublisherSphere Books Limited
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0747402507
- ISBN 13 9780747402503
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages223
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