Title: Death and the Maiden
Description: A brilliantly witty and entertaining Golden Age crime writers, apparently written as a send-up of Agatha ChristieWhen former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a possible sighting of a water-naiad he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search of the nymph. As tensions rise between Connie and Edris, Prissie invites part-time Freudian Mrs. Bradley to join them and unofficially observe Edris and his growing obsession. Then two young boys are found drowned and speculation mounts that the naiad is luring them to her deaths. Can Mrs Bradley unravel the mysteries hidden within the river?
Subjects: Beatrice Lestrange Bradley (Fictitious character), Fiction, Mystery, Bradley, beatrice lestrange (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Bradley, Beatrice Lestrange (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Bradley, Beatrice Lestrange (Fictitious character)