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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 ...
Ann Carol Crispin (April 5, 1950 – September 6, 2013) was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge .
A number also featured Detective Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard who also appears in two of the novels in the Fen series. Apart from one they had all previously appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper. [2] It was the last work featuring Fen for many years, until Crispin returned to the character for the 1977 novel The Glimpses of the ...
The deadly weapon "senapa" was invented by the author. [2] Early in the novel, the author describes the interior of Sarek and Amanda's home. One of the paintings on the wall is of an icy world with a large, red sun. This seems to be an intentional reference to a painting described in Crispin's first novel, Yesterday's Son.
When an editor working for Disney was seeking an author to write a novel dealing with the backstory of Captain Jack Sparrow, a major character from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, they contacted A.C. Crispin's agent and contracted her to write the book after reading The Han Solo Trilogy, which focused on Han Solo's backstory. [1]
The trilogy was written by Ann C. Crispin (as A. C. Crispin), and released in June 1997, October 1997, and March 1998, respectively. The author stated that "Per Lucasfilm's request, I did not cover Han's time in the Imperial Academy, or his first meeting with Chewbacca"; [1] these events were eventually depicted in the 2018 film Solo: A Star ...
Citing inadequacies with current practices in listing authors of papers in medical research journals, Drummond Rennie and co-authors, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1997, called for: a radical conceptual and systematic change, to reflect the realities of multiple authorship and to buttress accountability.
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.