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Fen Country : twenty-six stories / Edmund Crispin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : Bloomsbury Reader, 2018Copyright date: ©1979Description: vi, 164 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1448217474
  • 9781448217472
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Fiction Home Service Fiction Collection Fiction Collection CRIS In transit from Home Service to Davis (Central) Library since 06/03/2024 T00801792
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing and a corpse with an alibi... Just some of the unusual clues that Professor Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories. Employing a skilful balance of ingenuity and humour, Crispin lays out all the clues. Can you solve the case before Professor Fen? First-published posthumously in 1979, Fen Country is Edmund Crispin's second collection of short stories.

"First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, 1979."

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Who Killed Baker? (p. 1)
  • Death and Aunt Fancy (p. 8)
  • The Hunchback Gat (p. 13)
  • The Lion's Tooth (p. 19)
  • Gladstone's Candlestick (p. 24)
  • The Man Who Lost His Head (p. 29)
  • The Two Sisters (p. 35)
  • Outrage in Stepney (p. 40)
  • A Country to Sell (p. 45)
  • A Case in Camera (p. 51)
  • Blood Sport (p. 56)
  • The Pencil (p. 61)
  • Windhover Cottage (p. 65)
  • The House by the River (p. 70)
  • After Evensong (p. 75)
  • Death Behind Bars (p. 80)
  • We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute (p. 90)
  • Cash on Delivery (p. 107)
  • Shot in the Dark (p. 113)
  • The Mischief Done (p. 119)
  • Merry-Go-Round (p. 135)
  • Occupational Risk (p. 139)
  • Dog in the Night-Time (p. 144)
  • Man Overboard (p. 150)
  • The Undraped Torso (p. 155)
  • Wolf! (p. 160)
  • A Note on the Author (p. 165)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Kirkus Book Review

Twenty-six stories in 160 pages? Yes indeed. As made clear by this generous collection (much of it new to the US), the late great Mr. Crispin, an agreeably discursive novelist, was the most succinct (though still, somehow, leisurely) of short-story writers. Most of these gems, in fact, originally written as newspaper tidbit treats, are more riddles than stories--as Prof. Gervase Fen and Inspector Humbleby (sometimes individually, often together) are confronted with mini-cases for instant solution; the deductions--involving locked rooms, switched identities, tricky little details of all kinds--are always carried off with a brisk charm that's amusing without being fluttery. But just as impressive are the stories that don't rely on this seductive chat-at-the-pub format. ""Death Behind Bars"" is a creepy closing-in on a truly clever, truly grisly modus operandi. ""The Pencil"" and ""Cash on Delivery"" are dark, ironic, narrative twisters from the criminal point of view. And here too is that glorious Crispin classic about the poverty-line writer who's driven to extreme measures when he's constantly interrupted at his work by bonvivant visitors and callers. This, then, may well be the mystery fan's ideal bedside book: read for ten minutes, go to sleep with a smile and a shiver--thanks to the immense wit and effortless storytelling knack of the much-missed Robert Bruce Montgomery, a.k.a. Edmund Crispin. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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