They are her greatest weapon against fools, cads, criminals...and ex-lovers. Words also came easily to Adela's creator, Gladys Mitchell, who published nearly eighty novels in her long lifetime. Gladys introduced Mrs. Bradley in 1929 in the book Speedy Death. _She_ endowed her breezy heroine with attributes she herself possessed including an interest in Freud and a passion for all things British: <sep>, Pronoun: She <sep>, A: Gladys <sep>, B: Bradley