Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1521 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-14
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 314 minutes

Synopsis
Set in the prim and proper 1920s, MRS BRADLEY’S MYSTERIES follows amateur sleuth Adela Bradley as she attempts to solve murders thought the use of psychoanalysis and toxicology, aided by her chauffer George Moody.

Customer Reviews

House of Eliott - with Murders!
Light and frothy, this little series from the BBC is a delight for fans of crime and costume drama. Diana Rigg sparkles as lady detective Adella Bradley - clearly a woman ahead of her time - who, with help from chauffeur George (Neil Dudgeon) visits friends and country houses where murders just happen to occur.

The pilot episode is 80 minutes long and then there are 4 other 55 minute stories, each complete. A feast for the eyes and ears, the period detail and music of the roaring 1920's, are spot on and although the crimes themselves are portrayed in a less than serious way, the solutions are good and the clues well placed.

Adella's little asides to the camera - usually on the subject of marriage and men in general - add to the feeling for the viewer of being 'in' on a close chums adventures - and the cast is littered with well known British actors including Peter Davison and David Tennant.

If you like Marple and Poirot this little series will fit nicely into your dvd collection and will provide suitable viewing for the whole family. Pity more were not made - Gladys Mitchell wrote many books which could have been adapted - but I imagine that the cost involved would perhaps worry the BBC accountants.

Beware Duplication
As the two previous reviewers have said, this is a great series for those who like period mysteries such as the Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey productions. But beware - there are only 5 episodes in total:

1. Speedy Death
2. Death at the Opera
3. The Rising of the Moon
4. Laurels are poison
5. Worsted Viper

In the UK (i.e. Region 2), the BBC have released all five episodes on this two-disk box set (with no extras).

In America the first, feature length, episode - Speedy Death - was released separately. There are therefore TWO US boxed sets - but still only the same 5 episodes:

Qne is called "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries," but it only includes episodes 2-4 inclusive plus a few extras.
The other is called "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries Series 1", which includes "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" plus "Speedy Death" on a separate disk (and the same extras).

It has subtitles!
Just want everyone to know that this dvd has english subtitles. I do not understand why Amazon doesn't inform this.