<p>A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY<br><b>Rediscover Gladys Mitchell ¿ one of the ''Big Three'' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.<br><br></b>When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English countryside, stop at a country house to ask for directions, they are most astonished to be ushered in to dinner. It seems they''ve been invited as a necessity by the superstitious lady of the house, to avoid thirteen guests sitting down to dinner. But the thirteenth guest never arrives, and his headless body is discovered in a wood the next day.<br><br>Fortunately, numbered among the original dinner guests is a rather extraordinary psychoanalyst, and sometime detective, by the name of Mrs Bradley...</p>