Death of a Delft Blue

First edition
Author	Gladys Mitchell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Mrs Bradley
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Adders on the Heath
Followed by	Pageant of Murder

Death of a Delft Blue is a 1964 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.^[1] It is the thirty seventh in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.

Synopsis

While attending a conference in the Netherlands, Mrs Bradley encounters an eccentric Dutch family including a young woman under pressure to marry her cousin, to the outrage of her handsome brother Florian. While Florian is sitting for a portrait commissioned by his aunt in which he is holding a delft blue object, he disappears. He subsequently reappears in the British Peak District in North Derbyshire. Shortly afterwards to local barmaids die after eating poisoned chocolates which may have been intended for Florian.

References

Bibliography

• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.