Groaning Spinney is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the twenty third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] It was later republished under the title of Murder in the Snow.

Groaning Spinney
First edition
AuthorGladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMrs Bradley
GenreMystery
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1950
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byTom Brown's Body 
Followed byThe Devil's Elbow 

Synopsis

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While staying for Christmas with her nephew and his family at his house in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds, Mrs Bradley is intrigued by a local legend about a murdered Victorian village parson whose ghost appears at the entrance to a copse of trees known as "Groaning Spinney". She is drawn to investigate when a corpse is found there in imitation of the death of a century earlier.

References

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

Bibliography

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  • Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.