description: Noel Wells is a young curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh. His life mostly passes in helping the Reverend Bedivere Coutts with his sermons, organising the August Bank Holiday fete and dancing with Daphne to the gramophone in the vicarage study. Then one day Mrs. Coutts, forever outraged at the villagers' licentious behaviour, discovers that her unmarried housemaid is pregnant. Trouble begins. Noel knows just the person to help: Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the screeching, beady-eyed, pterodactyl-like guest at the Manor House. 'So this,' Noel thinks to himself, 'is a psycho-analyst,' as Mrs. Bradley, playing Holmes to his willing but imbecile Watson, pinches his check with her claws and sets out on her unnervingly unorthodox investigation. Bringing to bear all her wits--and wit--she tackles with relish a smuggler, the village lunatic, a missing corpse, a public pillorying, an exhumation, and of course, a murderer.
language: English
title: Saltmarsh Murders
titlecomplete: Saltmarsh Murders
characters: Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley
genres: Fiction, Crime, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Historical, Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, 20th Century
ratings_count: 902
series: Mrs. Bradley 
publisher: G K Hall & Co