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| Author | Gladys Mitchell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mrs Bradley |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1964 |
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| Preceded by | Adders on the Heath |
| Followed by | Pageant of Murder |
Death of a Delft Blue is a 1964 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. [1] It is the thirty seventh in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.
While attending a conference in the Netherlands, Mrs Bradley encounters an eccentric Dutch family including a young woman under pressure to marry her cousin, to the outrage of her handsome brother Florian. While Florian is sitting for a portrait commissioned by his aunt in which he is holding a delft blue object, he disappears. He subsequently reappears in the British Peak District in North Derbyshire. Shortly afterwards to local barmaids die after eating poisoned chocolates which may have been intended for Florian.
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie. Feted during her life, her work has been largely neglected in the decades since her death.
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