Here Comes a Chopper

{{Short description|1946 novel}}

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| author = Gladys Mitchell

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Mrs Bradley

| genre = Mystery

| publisher = Michael Joseph

| release_date = 1946

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| preceded_by = The Rising of the Moon

| followed_by = Death and the Maiden

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Here Comes a Chopper is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.Klein p.231 It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.Reilly p.1089 The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The plot revolves around a traditional country house mystery involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse.

In a review in the New Statesman, Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."