An edition of Fen Country: Twenty-six Stories (1940)

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Edmund Crispin
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An edition of Fen Country: Twenty-six Stories (1940)

Fen country

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Here's riches! Twenty-six detective stories by the great Edmund Crispin—a splendid hoard, if sadly posthumous. Most of them feature his don-detective, Gervase Fen, and/or his almost equally sharp-witted friend and (unofficial) colleague, Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard. And all of the stories are as taut as a highly strung bow, and score a remarkable series of bull's-eyes. They turn upon a fine assortment of clues—dandelions and hearing aids, Sunday pub closing in Wales, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing. There are devices and tricks of extraordinary ingenuity—murder by letter, a circular literary forgery. And cleverest of all, perhaps, there are the many variations on faked alibis and switched victims—the alibied corpse that gives the killer an alibi, or the faked alibi that breaks an alibi. There seems no limit to the intricacy of Edmund Crispin's invention or the sparkle of his wit. And certainly none to the sheer delight that his puzzles provide.

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Cover of: Fen Country
Fen Country: twenty-six stories
1980, Walker
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Cover of: Fen country
Fen country: twenty-six stories
1979, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6025.O46 F4, PR6025.O46F4

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160 p. ;
Number of pages
160

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OL4215570M
ISBN 10
0575027177
LCCN
80495195
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999952

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