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Stars starlets floozies and factotums to the film worldGervase Fen suspects them all A young actress Gloria Scott drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge The news sends shockwaves around her film studio where Gervase Fen Oxford Don and amateur criminologist just so happens to be working With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places Young Ms Scotts apartment has been searched and all signs of her real identity have been removed and whats more minutes before Humbleby interrogates her coworkers one of them a lecherous cameraman is poisoned Equal parts compelling witty and ingenuous this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction First published in 1950 Frequent Hearses was Edmund Crispins seventh novel
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The little village of Cotton Abbas is home to both an irritating influx of Englands newly rich and a deliciously weird clutch of longtime locals Chief among the latter Colonel Babbington whose cat Lavender is remarkably clumsy and also convinced that he is responsible for saving the world from a Martian invasion Lavender may be a little odd to say the least but his unusual psychic gifts prove unexpectedly helpful to Fen visiting incognito as he attempts to discover who is responsible for the villages epidemic of ugly anonymous letters
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When Oxford don Gervaise Fen serves as a literary advisor on a film he becomes involved with the death of a bitpart actress
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How acute are your powers of perception Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen Oxford don and sleuth supremeFirst published in 1953 these sixteen short stories are classic examples of Fens crimesolving prowess A professor of English at Oxford by trade he is also an eager amateur criminologist and this leads to him becoming involved in a whole host of compelling murder mysteries His intuition uncovers the most insoluble clues whenever even the best brains in the police force are frankly baffled These stories also allow you the reader to flex your own crimesolving muscles each one contains all the clues needed to anticipate its outcome using a delicate combination of logic and common sense with a bit of ingenuity thrown in Do you dare to take them on
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Edmund Crispin was in fact a pseudonym for composer Bruce Montgomery best known for writing the scores to the Carry On films The film on which Professor Gervase Fen has been hired to consult though is a biography of the poet Alexander Pope But however highminded the subjectmatter the actual process of making the movie is a grubby business from the young actresses of dubious morality to the stogiechomping cameramen perpetually threatening to strike Andto Fens evident delighteven the showbiz glamour cant prevent murder from muscling its way onto the scene
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Oxford don and parttime detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered giving Fen the chance to play sleuth Tracking down the culprit pleases Fen immensely Only the reader will have a better time
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How acute are your powers of perception Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen Oxford don and sleuth supremeFirst published in 1953 Beware of the Trains is a collection of sixteen short mysteries Fen must link a missing train conductor to the murder of a thief decipher cryptograms to solve the death of a cipher expert and puzzle out a lockedroom mystery on Boxing DayErudite and complex these Gervase Fen cases are classic crime at its finest plot atmosphere and anecdote bound together by Edmund Crispins inimitable wit and charm
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Death and decapitation seem to go hand in hand in the Devon village of Aller When the first victims head is sent floating down the river the villages rural calm is shattered Soon the corpses are multiplying and the entire community is involved in the hunt for the murderer Whilst many chase false trails it is left to Gervase Fen Oxford don and amateur criminologist to uncover the sordid truth Equal parts compelling witty and ingenuous this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction First published in 1977 Glimpses of the Moon was Edmund Crispins ninth and final novel
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One night Richard Cadogan poet and wouldbe bonvivant finds the body of an elderly woman in an Oxford toyshop and is hit on the head When he comes to he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store A quirky and appealing mystery for fans of classic crime
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Its a naughty world a tiresome world a world notably lacking in witty epigrams In short its a world that is crying out for Gervase Fen and so he has declared himself a candidate for Parliament ready to serve the good people ofwhere was it again Fens political ambitions though get just a little sidetracked by the murdered policeman who crops up on the campaign trail not to mention the escaped and naked lunatic whos convinced hes Woodrow Wilson And then theres the peculiar clergyman and the lovestruck pig
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Professor Gervase Fen is in Devon working on his masterpiece critique of the modern novel but keeps getting distracted by the local animals several pigs a mildly insane cat a horse with sleeping sickness by the spectacular failures of the local electrical board by the vicars practical jokes by the retired major yearning for another jolly war Oh and by the dismembered body found in a nearby field whose head keeps turning up in the most unlikely places
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When Oxford don Gervaise Fen serves as a literary advisor on a film he becomes involved with the death of a bitpart actress
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Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes However the night before the big day strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders While disentangling the facts of the case Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript By turns hilarious and chilling Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre Erudite eccentric and entirely delightful Before Morse Oxfords murders were solved by Gervase Fen the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction
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Eccentric Oxford professor Gervase Fen remains as maddeningly childish as ever still deliciously fond of his own wit and erudition Hes equally fond of amateur sleuthing so the murder of the cathedral organist is a cause for glee Could the fellow have fallen afoul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century Tracking down the answer pleases Fen immenselyonly the reader will have a better time
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The peaceful and prosperous village of Cotten Abbas has a very unpleasant problem Long inhabited by a collection of proudly offbeat locals there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and very well to do and not everyone is happy about it New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry and they dont seem likely to stop Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene but soon finds more than he bargained for A suicide on Friday a murder by Sunday and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved
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Amateur detective and Oxford don Gervase Fen with the assistance of Inspector Humbleby solves a series of baffling mysteries
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Introduces twentysix intricate zany crime stories to American readers featuring the masterfully depicted sleuths Gervase Fen and Inspector Humbleby
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A series of murders puts to the test the detective skills of Gervase Fen who ingeniously sorts out an intricate puzzle
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Gervase Fen an Oxford don with a passion for criminal investigation looks into the death of an acting troupes beautiful leading lady meeting with actors a Heinequoting parrot a team of monkeys and other eccentrics
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Gervase Fen investigates a murder that was preceded by the same kind of anonymous and malicious letter others in the village of Cotten Abbas have received
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