My Father Sleeps

My Father Sleeps
First edition
AuthorGladys Mitchell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMrs Bradley
GenreMystery
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded bySunset Over Soho 
Followed byThe Rising of the Moon 

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

  1. ^ Klein p.231
  2. ^ 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.


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