The complete collection of intriguing, suspenseful, gripping, dark, humorous and cosy classic short stories adored by Golden Age crime and modern mystery fans alike
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Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci–fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978.
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Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. The complete collection of published short stories of Edmund Crispin, together in one volume for the first time.Detective stories are anti-social. Its quite impossible to suppose that criminals dont collect useful information from them, fantastic and far-fetched though they usually are.Gervase Fen disagrees with such a pompous assessment. If criminals studied detective stories properly, they would get away with . . . well . . . murder.Forty-six detective stories by the great Edmund Crispin a splendid hoard! Most of them feature his Oxford don, Gervase Fen, and Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard, and the cases turn upon a fine assortment of clues dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat and a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi and a truly poisonous letter . . . there seems no limit to the intricacy of Edmund Crispins invention or the sparkle of his wit.Compiled from Beware of the Trains, Fen Country and other disparate sources, and concluding with the recently discovered Christmas novella The Hours of Darkness, this is a long-overdue treasury of original, often startling and invariably entertaining tales by one of the acknowledged masters of the detective story. Erudite and complex, succinct yet leisurely, it is classic crime at its finest. The complete collection of published short stories of Edmund Crispin, together in one volume for the first time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780008530662
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