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Fen Country Edmund Crispin

Fen Country By Edmund Crispin

Fen Country by Edmund Crispin

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Fen Country by Edmund Crispin

Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing and a corpse with an alibi... Just some of the unusual clues that Professor Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories. Employing a skilful balance of ingenuity and humour, Crispin lays out all the clues. Can you solve the case before Professor Fen? First-published posthumously in 1979, Fen Country is Edmund Crispin's second collection of short stories.

About Edmund Crispin

Edmund Crispin (1921-78) was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery), an English crime writer and composer. Montgomery wrote nine detective novels and two collections of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin (taken from a character in Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge!). The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is an eccentric, sometimes absent-minded Professor of English at the university. Crispin's whodunit novels have complex plots and fantastic, somewhat unbelievable solutions. They are written in a humorous, literary and sometimes farcical style and contain frequent references to English literature, poetry, and music. They are also among the few mystery novels to break the fourth wall occasionally and speak directly to the audience. The Times chose Edmund Crispin as one of their '50 Greatest Crime Writers'.

Table of Contents

1. Who Killed Baker? Edmund Crispin and Geoffrey Bush 2. Death and Aunt Fancy 3. The Hunchback Cat 4. The Lion's Tooth 5. Gladstone's Candlestick 6. The Man Who Lost His Head 7. The Two Sisters 8. Outrage in Stepney 9. A Country to Sell 10. A Case in Camera 11. Blood Sport 12. The Pencil 13. Windhover Cottage 14. The House by the River 15. After Evensong 16. Death Behind Bars 17. We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute 18. Cash on Delivery 19. Shot in the Dark 20. The Mischief Done 21. Merry-Go-Round 22. Occupational Risk 23. Dog in the Night-Time 24. Man Overboard 25. The Undraped Torso 26. Wolf! A Note on the Author

Additional information

GOR009737671
9781448217472
1448217474
Fen Country by Edmund Crispin
Edmund Crispin
The Gervase Fen Mysteries
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20181115
176
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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