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[flemmings]

I am very fond of Mrs. Bradley and would rather like to take her as a role model, but am increasingly going off Gladys Mitchell. She not only uses the n-word excessively (in a stock phrase, I grant you, that might not have struck an English person of the time as problematic), she really does deal in vulgar stereotypes. The Amos and Andy  'feets don't fail me now' trope that all black people are terrified of ghosts was bad enough, but seriously, had she ever met a single Jewish person? She manages to be worse than Sayers' 'all Jews are moneylenders or at best bankers', because at least Sayers doesn't make her characters croon about beautiful, beautiful money in pseudo-yiddish sentence structure.