Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983) was an English author of mystery novels and children’s books. She also wrote historical fiction as Stephen Hockaby. She is best known for her Mrs. Bradley mystery series. Gladys attended Goldsmiths College and University College, London. She taught English, history and games at St. Paul’s School, Brentford and then at St. Anne’s Senior Girls School. Gladys began to write novels in the mid-1920s, and continued to teach at various schools until 1961. She earned the CWA Silver Dagger Award in 1976.

Gladys Mitchell made her debut as a novelist in 1929 with the novel Speedy Death. Her final novel was the 1984 novel The Crozier Pharaohs. Below is a list of Gladys Mitchell’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Mrs. Bradley Books

A Speedy Death (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Longer Bodies (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Saltmarsh Murders (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death at the Opera / Death in the Wet (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil at Saxon Wall (1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Men's Morris (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Come Away, Death (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
St Peter's Finger (1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Printer's Error (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brazen Tongue (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hangman's Curfew (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When Last I Died (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laurels Are Poison (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Worsted Viper (1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sunset Over Soho (1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Father Sleeps (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rising of the Moon (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here Comes a Chopper (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death and the Maiden (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dancing Druids (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tom Brown's Body (1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Groaning Spinney / Murder in the Snow (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Elbow (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Echoing Strangers (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Merlin's Furlong (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faintley Speaking (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Watson's Choice (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose (1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Twenty-Third Man (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spotted Hemlock (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Grew Tomatoes (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Say It with Flowers (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nodding Canaries (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Bones Will Keep (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Adders on the Heath (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Delft Blue (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pageant of Murder (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Croaking Raven (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Skeleton Island (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Three Quick and Five Dead (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dance to Your Daddy (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gory Dew (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lament for Leto (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Hearse on May-Day (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Murder of Busy Lizzie (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Javelin for Jonah (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Winking at the Brim (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Convent on Styx (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Late, Late in the Evening (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Noonday and Night (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fault in the Structure (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wraiths and Changelings (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mingled with Venom (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nest of Vipers (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mudflats of the Dead (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Uncoffin'd Clay (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Whispering Knights (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Death Cap Dancers (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lovers, Make Moan (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here Lies Gloria Mundy (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Burrowing Mole (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Greenstone Griffins (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cold, Lone, and Still (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Winding-Sheet (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crozier Pharaohs (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Pamela Stewart Books

Holiday River (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Seven Stones Mystery (1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Malory Secret (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pam at Storne Castle (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Timothy Herring Books

Heavy as Lead (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Late and Cold (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Your Secret Friend (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shades of Darkness (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bismarck Herrings (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Three Fingerprints (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On Your Marks (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Caravan Creek (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Light Blue Hills (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Sleuth's Alchemy (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Ask a Policeman(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: Death at The Opera was published in the U.S. as Death in the Wet. Groaning Spinney was also titled Murder in the Snow.

The Timothy Herring series was written as Malcolm Torrie.

The standalone titles Marsh Hay, Seven Stars and Orion, Gabriel’s Hold, Outlaws of the Border, Shallow Brown, and Grand Master were written under the pen name of Stephen Hockaby.

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Gladys Mitchell Synopsis: A Speedy Death is the first book in the Mrs. Bradley series by Gladys Mitchell. Guests are set to dine at Alastair Bing’s elegant country manor, but only one guest – a murderer – is aware of the dead body in an upstairs bathtub. With renowned explorer Mr. Everard Mountjoy noticeably missing from the dining table, the rest of the party searches for him, and soon discovers the explorer’s drowned corpse. The murder is mystifying, not in the least because what is in the tub is the body of a woman! As danger and theories unravel, psychoanalyst Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley observes and interprets all, from shrieks in the night to drowning attempts to poisoning. It’s clear that Mrs. Bradley has a keen eye for detail. But can she find a motive for murder?

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