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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.
Beware of the Trains is a collection of detective short stories by the British writer Edmund Crispin published in 1953. [1] It contains sixteen stories including Beware of the Trains which gave its title to the collection. They all feature Crispin's amateur detective and Oxford professor Gervase Fen, an
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.
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The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), written while Crispin was an undergraduate at Oxford [2] and first published in the UK in 1944. It was published in the US a year later under the title Obsequies at Oxford.
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.
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.
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 ...