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From the blog Crime Fiction Lover: "Between 1944 and 1977, Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote a string of novels under the name Edmund Crispin. Today he is considered to be one of the underappreciated masters of the Golden Age of crime fiction. His novels featuring eccentric Oxford professor Gervase Fen were always witty and literate, and Frequent Hearses is one of the picks of the bunch.
In this, the seventh in the series, Fen visits a film studio to advise on the production of a biopic of poet Alexander Pope. It may be difficult to conceive of a Pope biopic being produced in 1950s London, but it does allow for some of Crispin’s trademark humour and literary knowledge to flourish. The novel’s title is from one of Pope’s poems about people dying left right and centre.
While Fen is advising on the production, young starlet Gloria Scott throws herself to her death from Waterloo Bridge. Fen has no reason to suspect anything other than suicide, until it becomes clear that Gloria Scott was just a stage name, that she was pregnant and that someone has searched the young actress’ apartment and tampered with the corpse to remove any hints as to her real identity. A lecherous cameraman is then found poisoned, and tests confirm it was murder. But what, if anything, links the two deaths? Of course, Fen is the man to find out."
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Fiction, Gervase Fen (Fictitious character), English teachers, English teachers in fiction, Large type books, Fen, gervase (fictitious character), fiction, College teachers, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Teachers, fiction, Gervase Fen (fictitious character), fiction"Places
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Frequent Hearses (Classic Crime)
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Frequent hearses: a detective story
1971, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Frequent hearses: a detective story
1971, London House & Maxwell
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Frequent hearses: a detective story
1950, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Reprint. Originally published: Sudden vengeance. New York : Dodd, Mead, [1950]
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