Mrs. Bradley is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by English novelist Gladys Mitchell. Beatrice LeStrange Bradley is a psychiatrist and medical doctor who uses her talents to help solve crimes across Britain.

Gladys Mitchell began her Mrs. Bradley series in 1929 with her debut novel, Speedy Death. The series lasted 66 novels, concluding in 1984 with The Crozier Pharaohs. Below is a list of Gladys Mitchell’s Mrs. Bradley books in order of when they were originally released (which is the same as their chronological order):

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

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

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Mrs. Bradley Synopses: The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop is the second book in the Mrs. Bradley series by Gladys Mitchell. Mrs. Bradley finds herself tracking down a traveling skull, has an arrow shot at her, and locates a body, neatly butchered and hung up to cure, at the local butcher’s shop.

The Longer Bodies is the third book in the series. 90-year-old Great Aunt Puddequet has a unique method to determine which of her young nephews is to inherit her estate – her fortune goes to the one who best performs on her homemade olympic field. When the javelin turns up with blood on its point, it’s time for Mrs. Bradley to step in.

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