Cold, Lone and Still

Also by Gladys Mitchell

speedy death • mystery of a butcher’s shop

the longer bodies • the saltmarshmurders

death at the opera • the devil at saxon wall

dead man’s morris • come away death

st peter’s finger • printer’s error

brazen tongue • hangman’s curfew

when last i died • laurels are poison

the worsted viper • sunset over soho

my father sleeps • the rising of the moon

here comes a chopper • death and the maiden

the dancing druids • tom brown’s body

groaning spinney • the devil’s elbow

the echoing strangers • merlin’s furlong

faintley speaking • watson’s choice

twelve horses and the hangman’s noose

the twenty-third man • spotted hemlock

the man who grew tomatoes • say it with flowers

the nodding canaries • my bones will keep

adders on the heath • death of a delft blue

pageant of murder • the croaking raven

skeleton island • three quick and five dead

dance to your daddy • gorydew

lament for leto • a hearse on may day

the murder of busy lizzie • a javelin for jonah

winking at the brim • convent of styx

late, late in the evening • noonday and night

fault in the structure • wraiths and changelings

mingled with venom • nest of vipers

mudflats of the dead • uncoffin’d clay

the whispering knights • the death-cap dancers

here lies gloria mundy • death of a burrowing mole

the greenstone griffins • the crozier pharaohs

Michael Joseph

LONDON

First Published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 44 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP

August 1983 Second Impression October 1985

©The executors of the Estate of Gladys Mitchell 1983

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner

ISBN 0 7181 2264 X

Composition by Allset, London

Printed in Great Britain by Hollen Street Press, Slough, and bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh