''My Father Sleeps'' is a 1944

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by the British writer

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. It is the seventeenth in her long-running series featuring the

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and amateur detective

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.Reilly p.1089 It is set in the Western Highlands of

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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

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References

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. 1944 British novels Novels by Gladys Mitchell British crime novels British mystery novels British thriller novels Novels set in Scotland British detective novels Michael Joseph books {{1940s-mystery-novel-stub