Hangman's Curfew is a 1941 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.

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

[2] While in Northumberland on a walking holiday a friend of Mrs Bradley encounters a young man who claims that his uncle is being poisoned.

She calls in the renowned psychoanalyst who begins making investigations, but is disconcerted to find that the uncle is in apparent good health.

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