Aka Malcolm Torrie, Stephen Hockaby. Born in Cowley, Oxford, in 1901, Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell was the daughter of market gardener James Mitchell, and his wife, Annie. She was educated at Rothschild School, Brentford and Green School, Isleworth, before attending Goldsmiths College and University College, London from 1919-1921. She taught English, history and games at St Paul's School, Brentford, from 1921-26, and at St Anne's Senior Girls School, Ealing until 1939. She earned an external diploma in European history from University College in 1926, beginning to write her novels at this point. Mitchell went on to teach at a number of other schools, including the Brentford Senior Girls School (1941-50), and the Matthew Arnold School, Staines (1953-61). She retired to Corfe Mullen, Dorset in 1961, where she lived until her death in 1983. Although primarily remembered for her mystery novels, and for her detective creation, Mrs. Bradley, who featured in 66 of her novels, Mitchell also published ten children's books under her own name, historical fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Hockaby, and more detective fiction under the pseudonym Malcolm Torrie. She also wrote a great many short stories, all of which were first published in the Evening Standard. She was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award in 1976.
Series
Books
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
1929
Late, Late in the Evening
1976
Come Away, Death
1937
Death of a Delft Blue
1964
The Twenty-Third Man
1957
Convent on Styx
1975
The Death Cap Dancers
1981
Fault in the Structure
1977
The Nodding Canaries
1961
My Bones Will Keep
1962
Faintley Speaking
1954
Death Comes at Christmas
1936
Sunset Over Soho
1943
A Hearse on May-Day
1972
Cold, Lone, and Still
1983
The Murder of Busy Lizzie
1973
Gory Dew
1970
A Javelin for Jonah
1974
The Rising of the Moon
1945
Murder by the Book
Mysteries for Bibliophiles
2021
The Croaking Raven
1966
Here Comes a Chopper
1946
The Dancing Druids
1948
The Man Who Grew Tomatoes
1959
Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose
1956
Noonday and Night
1977
Spotted Hemlock
1958
Tom Brown's Body
1949
Brazen Tongue
1940
The Saltmarsh Murders
1932
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
2017
The Mudflats of the Dead
1979
When Last I Died
1941
Hangman's Curfew
1941
Printer's Error
1939
The Longer Bodies
1930
Murder Under the Sun
Classic Mysteries for Summer
2024
Death at the Opera
1934
Nest of Vipers
1979
Say It with Flowers
1960
The Echoing Strangers
1952
The Crozier Pharaohs
1984
Uncoffin'd Clay
1980
Sleuth's Alchemy
Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others
2005
Death and the Maiden
1947
Skeleton Island
1967
Lament for Leto
1971
Winking at the Brim
1974
The Devil's Elbow
1951
Adders on the Heath
1963
Here Lies Gloria Mundy
1982
St. Peter's Finger
1938
Three Quick And Five Dead
1968
Murder in the Snow
1950
My Father Sleeps
1944
Mingled with Venom
1978
Merlin's Furlong
1953
The Devil at Saxon Wall
1935
Watson's Choice
1955
Laurels are Poison
1942
The Whispering Knights
1980
Dance to Your Daddy
1969
Death of a Burrowing Mole
1982
The Worsted Viper
1943
A Speedy Death
1929
No Winding Sheet
1984
The Greenstone Griffins
1983
