Love Lies Bleeding

Name: Love Lies Bleeding
Price: 6.99 EUR
Author: Edmund Crispin
ISBN: 9780008124168

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Edmund Crispin

Collins Crime Club
Paru le : 04/06/2015

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P. G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest... > Lire la suite

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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P. G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead.
The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders. While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript. By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre.

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Date de parution : 04/06/2015
Editeur : Collins Crime Club
Collection : A Gervase Fen Mystery
ISBN : 978-0-00-812416-8
EAN : 9780008124168
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 272 pages

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- Pages : 272
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Biographie d'Edmund Crispin

Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci-fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978.