When Last I Died is a 1941 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.Klein p.231 It is the thirteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.Reilly p.1089 In a review in The Observer, Maurice Richardson described it as "perhaps Miss Mitchell’s best, most ingenious crime story yet."
Synopsis After renting a house by the seaside Mrs Bradley comes across the diary of a former tenant in the house Bella Foxley, once accused of murdering her cousin some years before. Convinced that Bella was unfairly accused, Mrs Bradley takes it upon herself to investigate a supposedly haunted house where the murder has taken place.
References
Bibliography Klein, Kathleen Gregory. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994. Miskimmin, Esme. 100 British Crime Writers. Springer Nature, 2020. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.