Here Comes a Chopper is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.Klein p.231 It is the nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.Reilly p.1089 The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The plot revolves around a traditional country house mystery involving a man who goes missing only to turn up as a headless corpse.
In a review in the New Statesman, Ralph Partridge observed "Miss Gladys Mitchell’s style of surrealist detection is too fundamentally established to be criticised. In a misguided way she has a touch of genius."
References
Bibliography Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.