''Here Comes a Chopper'' is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the

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and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.Reilly p.1089 The title references a line in the

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'' Oranges and Lemons''. The plot revolves around a traditional

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involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse. In a review in the '' New Statesman'', Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."

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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. 1946 British novels Novels by Gladys Mitchell British crime novels British mystery novels British thriller novels Novels set in Surrey Novels set in London British detective novels Michael Joseph books {{1940s-mystery-novel-stub