| My Father Sleeps | |
| Author: | Gladys Mitchell |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mrs Bradley |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Michael Joseph |
| Release Date: | 1944 |
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| Preceded By: | Sunset Over Soho |
| Followed By: | The Rising of the Moon |
My Father Sleeps is a 1944 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell.[1] It is the seventeenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.[2] It is set in the Western Highlands of Scotland.
While on a walking holiday the brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Bradleys's secretary Laura Menzies encounter a strange local landowner Hector Loudoun who claims he is being pressured to sell ownership of one of his lochs.