by Edmund Crispin, Volker Neuhaus, Barbara Sibold
This mystery was both boring and sexist. I only read about a third and decided to stop reading.
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...
The first novel in the Gervase Fen series and the first of Crispin's novels which I've read, this was the August 2012 group read for the English Mysteries Book Club. Gervase Fen, an Oxford don and gifted amateur detective, solves the murder of an actress apparently hated by all who knew her. This r...
English Mystery Club group read and buddy read with Kim :-).
I love vintage mysteries and am partial to fiction written during the war years. I wanted very much to like Edmund Crispin's books (especially since he's written quite a few), but this is the second one I've read and I can't say I thought much of it. As with the last one, I didn't care enough about ...
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