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