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Crispin tries to get the help of "The Brotherhood", an organization Bear is a member of and headed by John Ball. When they refuse to aid Crispin in trying to find Bear, Crispin takes it upon himself to break into Furnival's palace and find Bear himself. Crispin finds a dagger in one of the hallways and keeps it under his cloak.
Frequent Hearses is a 1950 detective novel by the British author Edmund Crispin. [1] [2] It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring Gervase Fen an Oxford University professor and amateur detective.
The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. [1] It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards [2] on publication it was the first novel in the series to be released since The Long Divorce in 1951.
Holy Disorders is a 1945 mystery novel by the English writer Edmund Crispin, the second in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] The novel is set during the Second World War. The title is a reference to Chaucer. [2]
Swan Song is a 1947 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the fourth in his series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] It was the first in a new three-book contract the author has signed with his publishers. It received a mixed review from critics. [2]
The Long Divorce is a 1951 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the eighth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] It was the penultimate novel in the series, with a gap or more than twenty five years before the next entry The Glimpses of the Moon , although a collection of short ...
Love Lies Bleeding is a detective novel by Edmund Crispin, first published in 1948.Set in the post-war period in and around a public school in the vicinity of Stratford-upon-Avon, it is about the accidental discovery of old manuscripts which contain Shakespeare's long-lost play, Love's Labour's Won, and the subsequent hunt for those manuscripts, in the course of which several people are murdered.
In 2006, Avi wrote a sequel to Crispin: The Cross of Lead titled Crispin: At the Edge of the World. In the third part of the series, Crispin: The End of Time was published in 2010. His most recent novels, Catch You Later, Traitor and Old Wolf were met with critical success.