Mystery
Golden Age mystery: a family’s hunt for a river nymph draws Mrs. Bradley into drowned-boy murders around Winchester.
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Golden Age mystery: a family’s hunt for a river nymph draws Mrs. Bradley into drowned-boy murders around Winchester.
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A brilliantly witty and entertaining Golden Age crime writers, apparently written as a send-up of Agatha ChristieWhen former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a possible sighting of a water-naiad he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search of the nymph. As tensions rise between Connie and Edris, Prissie invites part-time Freudian Mrs. Bradley to join them and unofficially observe Edris and his growing obsession. Then two y...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Two boys drown; murder mystery deaths without graphic gore
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Chapter epigraphs include rural and country-parson quotations
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic system; folklore premise only
Occult / demonology
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Water-naiad and river-spirit folklore drives the mystery premise
Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child murders by drowning central; tense adult-ward dynamics
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