The Rising of the Moon is a 1945 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.

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

[3] In 2000 it was adapted for an episode of the television series The Mrs Bradley Mysteries starring Diana Rigg.

The arrival of a travelling circus enlivens the life of a sleepy English village, particularly when one of the female tightrope walkers is found dead.

The killing of a second victim, a barmaid, again when the moon is shining brightly suggests that there may be a lunatic at large.