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| Author | Gladys Mitchell |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Mrs Bradley |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | The Devil's Elbow |
| Followed by | Merlin's Furlong |
The Echoing Strangers is a 1952 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1][2] It is the twenty fifth entry in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[3]
In a review in The Observer Maurice Richardson felt it "tails off a bit after a flying start, but you'll read away" while later in the Times Literary Supplement he concluded "Towards the end the shifting of the scene from the Norfolk Broads, where one victim is drowned, to Hampshire, where another is beaten to death with a cricket bat, becomes bewilderingly abrupt. There is, however, no lack of zest." Eric Forbes-Boyd in the Sunday Times considered it "complicated by twins whose resemblance muddled the police, and, eventually, me. Mrs. Bradley, leering and chuckling, is as mesmeric as ever, but the tale meanders, and the end is summary."