The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin

The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin

The peaceful and prosperous village of Cotten Abbas has a very unpleasant problem. Long inhabited by a collection of proudly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and very well to do. and not everyone is happy about it.

New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry and they don't seem likely to stop.

Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved.

Edmund Crispin was the pen name of Robert Bruce Montgomery (commonly attributed as Bruce Montgomery), an English crime writer and musician, who lived from 2 October 1921 until 15 September 1978. Using the pseudonym Edmund Crispin (inspired by a character in Michael Innes' Hamlet, Vengeance! ), Montgomery published nine mystery novels and two collections of short tales. Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English and a fellow of Saint Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin places next to St John's College, appears in the stories. Fen is a strange, occasionally absent-minded guy who is said to be modeled on Oxford professor W. The whodunit novels, including examples of the locked room mystery, contain convoluted plots and amazing, somewhat implausible conclusions.

They're written in a lighthearted, literary, and even comic tone, with frequent allusions to English literature, poetry, and music. They're also one of the few mystery novels that occasionally break the fourth wall and speak straight to the audience.

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ISBN 13	9780099551201
ISBN 10	0099551209
Title	The Long Divorce
Author	Edmund Crispin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	1988-04-21
Number of pages	160
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