Tom Brown's Body

by Gladys Mitchell

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Series: Mrs. Bradley Mysteries (22)

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This was first published in 1949 and is bizarre. It is a crime story set in a public school; it is therefore full of public school jargon and silly things about Houses and Housemasters. Who killed Conway? I'll tell you - it was Mr Pearson. All the stuff about witchcraft is padding. (

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jon1lambert | Feb 16, 2013 |

I like many of Mitchell's books but I really couldn't get into this one. (

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Tomlinson, Patience	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley

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On Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a delightful and mild October, Merrys and Skene were about to make a plan to be A.W.O.L.

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Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Despised by both pupils and peers, there is no shortage of suspects, but can the redoubtable Mrs Bradley use tact, wit and just a touch of black magic to make the boys and their masters divulge the truth?… (more)

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