Groaning Spinney is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.

[1] It is the twenty third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.

While staying for Christmas with her nephew and his family at his house in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds, Mrs Bradley is intrigued by a local legend about a murdered Victorian village parson whose ghost appears at the entrance to a copse of trees known as "Groaning Spinney".

She is drawn to investigate when a corpse is found there in imitation of the death of a century earlier.

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