If anything roused the rancour of guests at Chayning Court, it was that someone should be late for dinner. But the intrepid explorer Everard Mountjoy was dead in the bath. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley takes it upon herself to investigate, unaware that she, along with all the other houseguests and staff, will be one of the suspects.
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By Rich
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At a country house dinner party, one of the guests, a well known explorer is found drowned in his bath. The explorer's secret revealed in death is just the beginning of Mrs Bradley's first case.
Frankly, slightly insane murder mystery with plenty of scope for analysis, regarding gender, sexuality. Plenty of plot twists and as seems to be usual in this era's detective fiction, a slightly dubious moral outcome. However, this does provide food for thought and makes Mrs Bradley a more interesting character than the rather grotesque old bag she at first appears to be. Viewers more familiar with the series starring Diana Rigg will be surprised how different this book is to the 'Speedy Death' that made the television screen.
Hopefully this first Mrs Bradley novel will soon be re-issued as some of the other Gladys Mitchell books have been. A great read.
Frankly, slightly insane murder mystery with plenty of scope for analysis, regarding gender, sexuality. Plenty of plot twists and as seems to be usual in this era's detective fiction, a slightly dubious moral outcome. However, this does provide food for thought and makes Mrs Bradley a more interesting character than the rather grotesque old bag she at first appears to be. Viewers more familiar with the series starring Diana Rigg will be surprised how different this book is to the 'Speedy Death' that made the television screen.
Hopefully this first Mrs Bradley novel will soon be re-issued as some of the other Gladys Mitchell books have been. A great read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is almost a classic British mystery -- but with a wry sense of humor -- in a league with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It is the first in a long series written from 1929 on. The author has a bit of fun with the genre, showing off some quirky characters, particularly the "heroine", and with daffy dialogue and a story that rolls right along, this is an enjoyable read. I won't give away the plot, which requires a little suspension of disbelief. If you like the works of Ruth Dudley Edwards and Dorothy Sayers, you will most likely find this book a treat. The great thing is, there are thirty more by Gldys Mitchell! I lok forward to reading them all.
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I wanted to read this book to complete the series of (spoiler alert) detective stories where a man turns out to be a woman (the other two are by Josephine Tey (good) and Ruth Rendell (goodish). The premise of Speedy Death is wonderful: a well-known explorer is found dead in his bathtub - but he's a woman! Unfortunately the story then collapses into long, talky scenes and I gave up. The murder takes place at a house party where all the characters end up trapped by the murder/accident - it's like a Chekhov play. But they do nothing but sit around and chat. Of course one by one people's secrets are revealed, but... We never even meet Mountjoy - we only hear brief details about him before he's found dead. None of the characters seems real, despite the sets of characteristics they're given. It makes you appreciate Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh. This book is not a novel - it's a puzzle.
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