Speedy Death

''Speedy Death'' by Gladys Mitchell was first published in 1929 and is therefore now pubic domain in the US.

In the first of a series of mysteries to introduce psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley, who better to investigate the case of a famous explorer who has died while taking a bath at a country house gathering?

If anything roused the rancour of guests at Chayning Court, it was that someone should be late for dinner. But the intrepid explorer Everard Mountjoy was dead in the bath. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley takes it upon herself to investigate, unaware that she, along with all the other house-guests and staff, will be one of the suspects.