Noel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh, likes to spend his time dancing in the study with the vicar's niece until one day the vicar's unpleasant wife discovers her unmarried housemaid is pregnant & trouble begins. It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective & full-time Freudian Mrs Bradley.

When Mrs Bradley's grandson finds an old diary in her cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional detective, for the diary's deceased owner was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt & cousin. Does the missing diary finally reveal what happened to old Aunt Flora? Is the case of Bella Foxley really closed?

George Conway was a master at Spey College. The head considered him a history specialist and a useful games coach, but his fellow masters thought him rude and the boys called him mean. But, as Inspector Gavin said, 'Schoolboys don't murder the staff'.

Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is enjoying a relaxing holiday on the island of Hombres Muertos. Then a cave high up in the mountains, containing the mummified bodies of 23 dead kings, acquires an extra corpse overnight and Mrs Bradley is delighted to be called into action.

Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley collection of people to assist him. But when one of the group mysteriously disappears, Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate.

Psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley advises her highly-strung friend, Hannibal Jones, to retreat to a quiet, rustic village to find rest and inspiration for his writing. Saxon Wall seems the perfect rural retreat, and Jones is quickly intrigued by the odd characters among the villagers, their pagan beliefs, and by the mystery surrounding Neot House.

Here Comes a Chopper

Great Aunt Puddequet was reputed to be enormously wealthy. It was also a tradition in the family that she was extraordinarily mean. So when the malicious old bird summons her grand-nephews to perform in a games tournament in order to secure their inheritances, they gloomily oblige. Before long, the country house games are interrupted by murder.

Alastair Bing's guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests search the house, a body is discovered in a bath, drowned. The body is that of a woman, but could the corpse in fact be Mountjoy? A peculiar and sinister sequence of events has only just begun.

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Rosamund Lestrange's behaviour is decidedly strange - but is she really an unhinged wife, or is she an innocent and sane girl at the centre of a conspiracy wrought by her guardian? Dame Beatrice Bradley is called to apply her psychiatric skills to the problem, but when the question of a rich inheritance arises and a body is found, her peerless skills as a detective are more urgently required. Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid...If you like Poirot and Miss...