Swan Song

By:

Edmund Crispin

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Gervase Fen Mysteries

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Description

This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" (The New York Times). When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse, but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room? In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love. "One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story . . . elegant, literate, and funny." --The Times of London "[Crispin's] books are fast, fun and smart, their hero charming, frivolous, brilliant and badly behaved." --New Review

Author Biography:

Bruce Montgomery, better known by his pen name Edmund Crispin, was an English crime writer and composer. He attended St. John's College at Oxford and later became a teacher at Shrewsbury School. While at Shrewsbury, he wrote nine novels and multiple short stories, and also became a widely respected reviewer for the Sunday Times. Montgomery was also very musically inclined, composing scores for more than thirty films, including the Carry On series. In the last year of his life, he published his final novel, The Glimpses of the Moon.

Release date NZ

December 5th, 2023

Author

Edmund Crispin

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Revised Edition, Revised ed.

Pages

218

Series

Gervase Fen Mysteries

Dimensions

140x216x13

ISBN-13

9781504091961

Product ID

38486514

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