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Sunset Over Soho
1943 novel
Sunset Over Soho is a 1943 detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the sixteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] Bradley was one of a number of investigators active during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
A review by Ralph Partridge in the New Statesman noted "Miss Mitchell does her best to represent English surrealism. Sunset over Soho seems to centre round a body in a coffin, which starts its career somewhere up the Thames and eventually comes to earth in an air-raid shelter in Soho, having apparently dropped out of a church. Someone takes part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, and someone else takes a trip to the Canary Islands. No incident is ever explained, and there are plenty of incidents; while Mrs. Bradley lords it over all. This must be the deepest of Miss Mitchell’s constructions, as even her most ardent fans have been unable to fathom its beauties."