Here Comes a Chopper

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Here Comes a Chopper
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Author Gladys Mitchell
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Mrs Bradley
GenreMystery
Publisher Michael Joseph
Publication date
1946
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Rising of the Moon  
Followed by Death and the Maiden  

Here Comes a Chopper is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. [1] It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. [2] The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons . The plot revolves around a traditional country house mystery involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse.

In a review in the New Statesman , Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."

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References

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

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