Here Lies Gloria Mundy

About Here Lies Gloria Mundy

At a weekend gathering of relatives and friends, Gloria Mundy, a woman from the host’s pre-marital past, turns up unheralded and uninvited, and her visit is followed by a series of disturbances, domestic disagreements and two unrelated accidents. These culminate in the discovery of a charred corpse in the burnt-out dower house in the grounds of the mansion. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley has been one of the guests, but only so that she can cast a professional eye over the eccentric, elderly aunt of the hostess, and she is called away before anything untoward or dreadful comes about.

Was Gloria Mundy a witch? What else could explain the mysterious events which follow her unexpected arrival? What else could account for her being seen alive in a London dress shop several weeks after she has been found dead—apparently the victim of murder?

With the help of Corin, a young journalist who narrates the story, Dame Beatrice painstakingly pieces together the complicated jigsaw and leaves no stone unturned until she has unearthed the truth.