Sunset Over Soho
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| Author | Gladys Mitchell |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Mrs Bradley |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1943 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | The Worsted Viper |
| Followed by | My Father Sleeps |
Sunset Over Soho is a 1943 detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the sixteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] Bradley was one of a number of investigators active during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
A review by Ralph Partridge in the New Statesman noted "Miss Mitchell does her best to represent English surrealism. Sunset over Soho seems to centre round a body in a coffin, which starts its career somewhere up the Thames and eventually comes to earth in an air-raid shelter in Soho, having apparently dropped out of a church. Someone takes part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, and someone else takes a trip to the Canary Islands. No incident is ever explained, and there are plenty of incidents; while Mrs. Bradley lords it over all. This must be the deepest of Miss Mitchell’s constructions, as even her most ardent fans have been unable to fathom its beauties."
Synopsis
[edit]At the height of the Second World War, a crated body is found in the basement of the London air raid shelter in which Mrs Bradley is working.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
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