Edmund Crispin

• 1977
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Death and decapitation seem to go hand in hand in the Devon village of Aller. When the first victim''s head is sent floating down the river, the village''s rural calm is shattered. Soon the corpses are multiplying, and the entire community is invo...

• 1972
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How acute are your powers of perception? Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen, Oxford don and sleuth supreme?First published in 1953, Beware of the Trains is a collection of sixteen short mysteries. Fen must link a missing train conductor to t...

• 1951
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From a British mystery author known as "the master of the whodunnit," an amateur sleuth searches for a source of poison-pen letters in an English village (The New York Times Book Review).   The small town of Cotten Abbas is losing some...

• 1950
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Edmund Crispin's Frequent Hearses is a captivating Golden Age detective novel featuring the inimitable Gervase Fen, an eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth with a razor-sharp intellect and a penchant for mischief. Set against the glamorous y...

• 1949
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A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who "combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (The New York Times). In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor an...

• 1948
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Gervase Fen returns to school and teaches a few lessons about murder. The alluring young schoolgirl Brenda Boyce disappears on the eve of Speech Day at Castrevenford School. Has she been spirited away by some unknown lover, or does her disappearan...

• 1947
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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 Wa...

• 1946
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When a poet, Richard Cadogan, receives an unexpected �50 advance from his publisher for his new poetry book, he decides to go to Oxford for a well deserved holiday. The change of scenery and peace of mind is what he needs to recover his inspiration f...

• 1945
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This 1945 classic British mystery from "a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity" (The New York Times Book Review).   On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge wi...

• 1944
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Edmund Crispin's The Case of the Gilded Fly is a masterful blend of classic detective fiction, intellectual wit, and literary allusions, marking the debut of the eccentric and brilliant amateur sleuth, Gervase Fen. First published in 1944, this Golde...

• 1940
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Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, and a truly poisonous letter... are just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted wi...