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Edmund Crispin
Full Series List in Order
Gervase Fen
1 - Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)2 - Holy Disorders (1945)
3 - The Moving Toyshop (1946)
4 - Swan Song (1947)
5 - Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
6 - Buried for Pleasure (1949)
7 - Frequent Hearses // Sudden Vengeance (1950)
8 - The Long Divorce (1951)
9 - The Glimpses of the Moon (1977)
Fen Country (1940)
Beware of the Trains (1972)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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Fen Country
- 1940
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Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, and a truly poisonous letter... are just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted wi...
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Case of the Gilded Fly
- 1944
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It is October 1940 and at Oxford the Full Term has just begun. Robert Warner, up and coming playwright known for his experimental approach, has chosen an Oxford repertory theater for the premiere of his latest play, Metromania. Together with his cast...
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Holy Disorders
- 1945
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This 1945 classic British mystery from “a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity” (The New York Times Book Review). On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with hi...
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The Moving Toyshop
- 1946
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When a poet, Richard Cadogan, receives an unexpected £50 advance from his publisher for his new poetry book, he decides to go to Oxford for a well deserved holiday. The change of scenery and peace of mind is what he needs to recover his inspiration ...
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Love Lies Bleeding
- 1948
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Gervase Fen returns to school and teaches a few lessons about murder. The alluring young schoolgirl Brenda Boyce disappears on the eve of Speech Day at Castrevenford School. Has she been spirited away by some unknown lover, or does her disappearan...
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Buried for Pleasure
- 1949
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A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who “combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity” (The New York Times).In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor an...
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Frequent Hearses // Sudden Vengeance
- 1950
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Stars, starlets, floozies, and factotums to the film world--Gervase Fen suspects them all . . . A young actress, Gloria Scott, drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge. The news sends shock-waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen, Ox...
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The Long Divorce
- 1951
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From a British mystery author known as “the master of the whodunnit,” an amateur sleuth searches for a source of poison-pen letters in an English village (The New York Times Book Review). The small town of Cotten Abbas is losing some of it...
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Beware of the Trains
- 1972
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How acute are your powers of perception? Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen, Oxford don and sleuth supreme?First published in 1953, Beware of the Trains is a collection of sixteen short mysteries. Fen must link a missing train conductor to t...
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- 1977
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Death and decapitation seem to go hand in hand in the Devon village of Aller. When the first victim''s head is sent floating down the river, the village''s rural calm is shattered. Soon the corpses are multiplying, and the entire community is invo...
