Tom Brown's Body is a 1949 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.

[1][2] It is the twenty second in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.

Mitchell had previously used a school setting for her earlier work Death at the Opera.

In the countryside searching for a book by one of her ancestors on witchcraft, Mrs Bradley acquires it from a local witch.

However, a murder of one of the schoolmasters at the nearby boarding school draws her interest, particularly as it appears to be linked with witchcraft.