Printer's Error is a 1939 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the tenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2][3]

Printer's Error
First edition
AuthorGladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMrs Bradley
GenreMystery
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1939
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded bySt Peter's Finger 
Followed byBrazen Tongue 

Synopsis

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A small publishers agrees to print an anti-Semitic work by a well-known but controversial author Fortinbras Carn. Before long he is receiving anonymous letters threatening him and then his wife is discovered bludgeoned to death. The author himself goes missing and severed body parts begin turning up across the area. As Mrs Bradley joins the investigation it appears the case make be connected to activities by agents of the German Nazi Party.

References

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  1. ^ Klein p.231
  2. ^ Reilly p.1089
  3. ^ Miskimmin p.155

Bibliography

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  • 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.