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1950s: This book was previously published as Groaning Spinney
Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery
What you need to know before your trail
Mrs Bradley, sharp-eyed detective and celebrated psychiatrist, has decided to spend Christmas with her nephew at his beautiful house in the Cotswolds.
It isn’t long before a mystery unfolds. There are strange events occurring in the nearby wood and local villagers are receiving anonymous threatening letters. Then the snow begins to fall – and a body is discovered.
Mrs Bradley is on the case, but she’ll have to hatch an ingenious plan to reveal the truth and find the culprit
Locations
Reset- England - The Cotswolds
- A: Cobberley
- B: Elkstone
- C: Compton Abdale
- D: Cirencester
- E: Cheltenham - post office
Travel Guide
BookTrail Travel to the Cotswolds
This story takes place deep in the heart of the Cotswolds although it’s never really clear where exactly. The journey to the village takes the characters through the small villages of Cobberley, Elkstone and along the Oxford -Gloucester turn off to get the village in question.
They stay in a nice Cotswolds manor:
It was of stone, and had the high gables and beautiful greyness of all early Cotswold manors.
Its tiles were made of stone, too, and had weathered to a mellowness which was absent from the stark walls and the Tudor drip stones above the windows. A broad archway led to the stables, and there was a large dovecot, almost the size of a cottage, at the side of the house.”
Cirencester
The town where the characters mention in passing as the place they go for groceries and other similar things
Cirencester is a market town, 80 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn.
Cheltenham
The other town mentioned as being the place the characters travel to often.
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Destination: The Cotswolds Author/Guide: Gladys Mitchell Departure TIme: 1950s
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