Swan Song by Edmund Crispin
Gervase Fen has two corpses whose deaths seemed linked in a mysterious manner. The first was the remains of Edwin Shorthouse, the most feared, hated and uncooperative member of the cast. The second, a junior singer in the chorus and aspiring opera-composer, was a married man of just two days.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 | 9780099622901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099622904 |
| Title | Swan Song |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1990-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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