I've read a couple of Gervaise Fen full length novels and enjoyed them quite a bit, but I think I might like the short stories even better. That wonderful, dry English humor: check! Well plotted mysteries: check! Fair play plotting: check! (although as Crispin cites in his foreword, 4 of them requ...
Both Edmund Crispin's Moving Toyshop and Alan Melville's Quick Curtain are mentioned in the "Making Fun of Murder" chapter of Martin Edwards's Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. Both are excellent examples of writers taking something as horrific as murder and turning it right around and into a fa...
Martin Edwards sums up The Moving Toyshop perfectly: "Few crime novels can match Edmund Crispin's most celebrated mystery for sheer exuberance." Exuberance is the perfect word for this book; it's comic without being comedic, and it's obvious (to me, anyway) that the author had a great time writing...
As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.★★★☆☆ Who or What Was It? by Kingsley Amis★★★★☆ The Believers by Robert Arthur★★☆☆☆ A Happ...
bookshelves: summer-2010, mystery-thriller, published-1950 Recommended for: BBC7 listeners and Gervase Fen fans! Read from May 31 to June 02, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Better read than listened to.Yay - the Beeb does a Crispin - Squee! Working at Leiper film studios in London, the amateur detecti...
bookshelves: published-1946, adventure, classic, britain-england, amusing, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Lee Aiken; Libbeth Read in April, 2009 If ever there was a precursor to the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin - this is it. Wonderful fun. On the last page F...
bookshelves: published-1924, britain-england, amusing, mystery-thriller Read in July, 2009 Condition: Used - AcceptableSold by: book-tree £0.49This is going to be a five star for Mr. Merrythought alone! One can become so immersed in the wit, vocabulary and characters all encompassed in Crispin'...
Rating: 2.5* of fiveThe Book Description: Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseult, a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men. Round...
There was a long gap in his writing during a time when he was suffering from alcohol problems. Otherwise he enjoyed a quiet life enlivened by music, reading, church-going and bridge, Wikipedia states, adding that he married his secretary two years before his death at age 56. This very much fits with...
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