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Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
Mrs Lestrange Bradley...is by far the best and most vital English female detective Observer Mrs Bradley is easily the best woman detective in fiction News Chronicle Judged the equal of Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie... but more like a mad combination of them both Independent on Sunday The Great Gladys -- Philip Larkin
