1944 novel
My Father Sleeps is a 1944 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the seventeenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] It is set in the Western Highlands of Scotland.
Synopsis
While on a walking holiday the brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Bradleys's secretary Laura Menzies encounter a strange local landowner Hector Loudoun who claims he is being pressured to sell ownership of one of his lochs.
References
- ^ Klein p.231
- ^ Reilly p.1089
Bibliography
- Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Miskimmin, Esme. 100 British Crime Writers. Springer Nature, 2020.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
