The Twenty-Third Man

First edition
Author	Gladys Mitchell
Cover artist	Kenneth Farnhill
Language	English
Series	Mrs Bradley
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Publication date	1957
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose
Followed by	Spotted Hemlock

The Twenty-Third Man is a 1957 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.^[1][2] It is the thirtieth in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.

Dame Beatrice Bradley is on holiday in the Canary Islands, staying on a smaller island famous for his cave where the bodies of twenty three mummified ancient kings are buried. However Karl Emden, one of the tourists, on the island appears as a twenty fourth corpse in the cave. Dame Beatrice begins to investigate the passengers who arrived with her, suspecting one of them is the killer.

• Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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