Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen Mysteries)
 "A Quaint and Curious Volumeý": For the second mystery in his series featuring Gervase Fen, Oxford don and amateur detective extraordinaire, Edmund Crispin finally treats World War II with more than just a passing reference to blackouts [... more]
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Holy Disorders
"A Quaint and Curious Volumeý": For the second mystery in his series featuring Gervase Fen, Oxford don and amateur detective extraordinaire, Edmund Crispin finally treats World War II with more than just a passing reference to blackouts [... more]
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Glimpses of the Moon
Final full-length Fen: "The Glimpses of the Moon" (1978) was published twenty-six years after Crispin's penultimate Fen novel, "The Long Divorce" (1952). It is sandwiched between two collections of short stories: "Beware of the [... more]
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Beware of the Trains (Classic Crime)
Sixteen ten-minute mysteries: All but one of the short mysteries in "Beware of the Trains" first appeared in the "London Evening Standard." Gervase Fen, Crispin's inimitable amateur detective and Professor of English Language and [... more]
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Frequent Hearses (Classic Crime)
Vintage British mystery with a 'classical education': If I had to rank my favorite British mystery authors who produced their best work in the 1930s through the 1950s, my list would look like this: (1) Edmund Crispin a.k.a. Bruce Montgomery (2) Michael [... more]
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Fen Country: 26 Stories (Classic Crime)
Posthumous short story collection: "Fen Country" (1979) is a posthumous collection of short mysteries, with only one story repeated from Crispin's earlier collection, "Beware of the Trains" (1953). If you are new to this author, I [... more]
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The Long Divorce
The cat who saw Martians: Edmund Crispin is not known as a writer who features animals in his mysteries. Yet in "Swan Song," he gave us the bald, pub parrot that recited Heine in the original German. In "Love Lies Bleeding," Mr. [... more]
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The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen Mysteries)
A gilded treasure from the Golden Age of British Mystery: Edmund Crispin (pseudonym for Bruce Montgomery) wrote "The Case of the Gilded Fly" in 1944 while he was still an undergraduate at St. John's College, Oxford. It features the advent of [... more]
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The Moving Toyshop (Classic Crime)
A classic from the Golden Age of mystery fiction: The Moving Toyshop takes the classic puzzle of the locked room and turns it inside out. A struggling poet, defeated one stormy night by British Railway's unfathomable time-tables, takes shelter in an old [... more]
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Love Lies Bleeding (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
Love's Labours Won and Lost - my favorite Fen: "Love Lies Bleeding" (1948) is the fifth of the Professor Fen mysteries, falling between "Swan Song" (1947) and "Buried for Pleasure" (1948). It involves foul play at the [... more]
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Swan Song
Alternate title: "Dead and Dumb": The British mystery author, Michael Innes a.k.a. John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote the introduction to "Swan Song," wherein he claims that Crispin solved the dilemma of the 'Great Detective versus [... more]
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Buried for Pleasure
Professor Fen stands for Parliament and exposes a murderer: The title of this Gervase Fen mystery is dredged from English folklore: "Buried on Monday, buried for health, /Buried on Tuesday, buried for wealth; /Buried on Wednesday, buried at leisure, [... more]
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