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Mrs Bradley - Speedy Death

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A country house, a corpse - and the butler's not to blame.

A country house, a corpse - and the butler's not to blame. Gladys Mitchell's whodunit stars Mary Wimbush. and Leslie Phillips.

It's the 1920s:  A rather ripping murder occurs in the bathroom of an elegant country house... 

Gladys Mitchell's 1929 whodunit stars Mary Wimbush as the sleuth extraordinaire, Mrs Lestrange Bradley.    

With Leslie Phillips and Michael Cochrane

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud

Mrs Bradley ..... Mary Wimbush
Carstairs ..... Leslie Phillips
Bertie Phillipson ..... Michael Cochrane
Garde Bing ..... Philip Sully
Alistair Bing .... Garard Green
Eleanor Bing ..... Rowan Suart
Dorothy Clark ..... Teresa Gallagher
Mabel Cobbn ..... Lois Burgess
Sir Joseph .... David King
Inspector Boring ..... Christopher Scott
Ferdinand Lestrange/Doctor .... Simon Treves
Parsons ..... Fraser Kerr

Director Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1990.

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