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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.
Crispin – The title character. He is a 13-year-old peasant boy, living in rural England in the year 1377. Bear (Orson Hrothgar) – A traveling jester and entertainer who takes Crispin and eventually Troth under his wing. He is also Crispin's teacher. Troth – A girl with a cleft lip who lives with Aude. She joins with Bear and Crispin in ...
He has a monkey named Schim. Crispin promises to take this boy with him to Iceland and helps him escape the thieves. Crispin – The title character. He is a 13-year-old peasant boy, living in rural England in the year 1377. He is a brave and courageous boy. Troth – A girl with a cleft lip who travels with Crispin. The word troth means to ...
The book provided the source for the famous merry-go-round sequence at the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. [2] All the major elements of the scene – the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, and the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it – are present in Crispin's novel, [3] though he received no screen ...
When releasing the fifth excerpt of her book, Crispin spoke of how she was privileged to write the scene where Han first beheld—and fell for—the Millennium Falcon in The Han Solo Trilogy. She assured fans it was every bit as thrilling to write the scene with Jack Sparrow and the Wicked Wench. [5] The Price of Freedom was published on May 17 ...
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.
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Crispin's Times obituary of 1978 detected within The Case of the Gilded Fly the influence of his favourite authors John Dickson Carr, Gladys Mitchell and Michael Innes together with – in his own words – "a dash of Evelyn Waugh". The obituarist placed the novel within the "highly improbable but wholly delightful" academic detective genre in ...