Here Comes a Chopper

Here Comes a Chopper is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The plot revolves around a traditional country house mystery involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse.

Here Comes a Chopper
First edition
AuthorGladys Mitchell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMrs Bradley
GenreMystery
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1946
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Rising of the Moon 
Followed byDeath and the Maiden 

In a review in the New Statesman, Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."

References

  1. Klein p.231
  2. Reilly p.1089

Bibliography

  • Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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