Holy Disorders
IPSO Books (Verlag)
978-1-911295-29-7 (ISBN)
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"A master of the whodunnit… he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" - The New York Times
Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world, and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century?
Tracking down the answer pleases Fen immensely - only the reader will have a better time.
Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful - Before Morse, Oxford's murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.
REVIEWS
"Fen at his very best" - New York Times Book Review
"Holy Disorders uncannily recreates the mood of an antiquarian ghost story" - Washington Post
“I very much enjoy Edmund Crispin, who’s extremely frivolous, with a marvellous comic sense” – P.D. James
"Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity" - Philip Larkin
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (2 October 1921 — 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer. Montgomery wrote nine detective novels and two collections of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin (taken from a character in Michael Innes’s Hamlet, Revenge! ). The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of English at the University and a fellow of St Christopher’s College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John’s College. The whodunit novels have complex plots and fantastic, somewhat unbelievable solutions, including examples of the locked-room mystery. They are written in a humorous, literary and sometimes farcical style and they are also among the few mystery novels to break the fourth wall occasionally and speak directly to the audience. Crispin is considered by many to be one of the last great exponents of the ‘classic’ crime mystery.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.04.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The Gervase Fen Mysteries |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-911295-29-2 / 1911295292 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-911295-29-7 / 9781911295297 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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