Groaning Spinney is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the twenty third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] It was later republished under the title of Murder in the Snow.
 First edition | |
| Author | Gladys Mitchell |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mrs Bradley |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Tom Brown's Body |
| Followed by | The Devil's Elbow |
Synopsis edit
While staying for Christmas with her nephew and his family at his house in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds, Mrs Bradley is intrigued by a local legend about a murdered Victorian village parson whose ghost appears at the entrance to a copse of trees known as "Groaning Spinney". She is drawn to investigate when a corpse is found there in imitation of the death of a century earlier.
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Bibliography edit
- 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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