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Dead Men's Morris

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Dead Men's Morris
First edition
AuthorGladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMrs Bradley
GenreMystery
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1936
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Devil at Saxon Wall 
Followed byCome Away, Death 

Dead Men's Morris is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the seventh in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] It was the first to be published by Michael Joseph who released all the subsequent fifty nine novels in the series. It was later republished with the alternative title Death Comes at Christmas.

Synopsis

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Mrs Bradley goes to spend Christmas at her nephew's Oxfordshire pig farm, she investigates two apparently accidental deaths in the picturesque villages that are in fact murders. Also encountered are a legendary local ghost and a team of morris dancers.

References

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

Bibliography

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  • Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Miskimmin, Esme. 100 British Crime Writers. Springer Nature, 2020.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.