''Groaning Spinney'' is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the twenty third in her long-running series featuring the

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and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.Reilly p.1089 It was later republished under the title of ''Murder in the Snow''.

Synopsis

While staying for Christmas with her nephew and his family at his house in Gloucestershire in the

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, Mrs Bradley is intrigued by a local legend about a murdered

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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.

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Bibliography

* Klein, Kathleen Gregory. ''Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary''. Greenwood Press, 1994. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. 1950 British novels Novels by Gladys Mitchell British crime novels Novels set in London Novels set in Gloucestershire British detective novels Michael Joseph books {{1950s-mystery-novel-stub