Gladys Mitchell: My Father Sleeps & Brazen Tongue

My reading of Gladys Mitchell had been blocked by my inability to get hold of Printer’s Error: I had read many of them, darting all over the place in the list, but was now trying to fill in the gaps. Printer’s Error seemed impossible – but my Secret Santa solved the problem. What Went Right, What Went Wrong: Printer's Error And now I am back on track, and today am bringing two books to the table My Father Sleeps by Gladys Mitchell published 1944 This is a very Scottish book. And it also deals with Campbells and Macdonalds and Glencoe – a recent interest on the blog, and with families where someone has remarried, which we also dealt with, all n this post:Apricot sky by Ruby Ferguson + Campbells, Etiquette, Hamlet Mrs Bradley is up in Scotland with her assistant Laura Menzies (the last name is important: Scottish you see). She is due to give a paper to a learned conference and we gather is having some holiday first. And we have Laura’s brother Ian, newly-wed and sailing in the area.…