The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop

Gladys Mitchell
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
Dramatised by: Elizabeth Proud

Psychiatrist and medical doctor Beatrice LeStrange Bradley solves crimes among all sorts of British places and people.
Amateur sleuth Mrs Lestrange Bradley:
Mary Wimbush

Part 1 00:00
An Offal Discovery

The disappearance of Rupert Sethleigh and the discovery of a headless body in the village of Wandles Parva.

Vicar of Wandles: David King
James Redsey: Christopher Scoular
Felicity Broome: Teresa Gallagher
Supt Bidwell: Norman Bird
Aubrey Harringay: Richard Pearce
Mrs Bryce Harringay/Mrs Noon: Ann Windsor
Cleaver Wright: Christopher Scott
George William Savile: Terence Edmond
Dr Barnes: Peter Penry-Jones
Insp Grind: Charles Millham
Theodore Grayling: David Monico
Eulalie Blenkins: Elizabeth Proud
Bishop of Culminster: Eric Allan
Mrs Willows/Mary Kate Maloney:
Sunny Ormonde
Sgt Walls: Ronald Herdman

Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast:
Wed 11th Dec 1991
14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Beatrice Adela Bradley is a fictional detective created by Gladys Mitchell. Mrs Bradley is Mitchell's most significant and long-lived character, appearing in 66 novels that were published between 1929 and 1975.

Gladys Mitchell
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop

Part 2 44:08
The Bones of the Matter

Dramatised by: Elizabeth Proud

Rupert Sethleigh is missing and a headless corpse has been found jointed in the butcher's shop.

Mrs Lestrange Bradley: Mary Wimbush
Aubrey Harringay: Richard Pearce
Felicity Broome: Teresa Gallagher
James Redsey: Christopher Scoular
Cleaver Wright: Christopher Scott
George William Savile: Gallagher Edmond
Vicar of Wandles: David King
Dr Barnes: Peter Penry-Jones
Lulu Hirst: Petra Markham
Insp Grind: Charles Millham
Supt Bidwell: Norman Bird
Mary Maloney: Sunny Ormonde
Margery Barnes: Jane Whittenshaw

Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast:
Wed 18th Dec 1991
14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, minus its head, laid out in the village butcher shop, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset.

Sethleigh was a blackmailing money lender and when the unconventional detective Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects.

It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have been wandering about Manor Woods, home of the mysterious druidic stone on which Sethleigh's blood is found splashed, on the night he was murdered but can she eliminate the red herrings and catch the real killer?

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