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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 ...
The novel is dedicated to the poet Philip Larkin, Crispin's contemporary at St John's College, Oxford.In chapter 10, tongue-in-cheek reference is made to Larkin, with the mention of an undergraduate essay called "The Influence of Sir Gawain on Arnold's Empedocles on Etna", about which Fen comments: "Good heavens, that must be Larkin: the most indefatigable searcher out of pointless ...
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.
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.
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]
Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin.Fen appears in nine novels and two books of short stories published between 1944 and 1979.
In their review, Publishers Weekly said that Crispin "packed everything a diehard Trekkie could want" into the book. [3] Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer of Tor.com compared the book to a glass of wine: "Sarek is the Star Trek novel equivalent of a glass of Riesling—sweet and light, but indisputably grown up." She praised Crispin and said "her ...
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.