Come Away Death

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.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 in the experiment including a rival scholar a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous children. But when one of the group disappears and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes the superlative detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate...Opinionated unconventional unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple you'll love Mrs Bradley.