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Gervase Fen Mystery Collection: 6 books (The Moving Toyshop / Love Lies Bleeding / Holy Disorders / Swan Song / Buried For Pleasure / The Case of the Gilded Fly
Gervase Fen Mystery Collection 6 books The Moving Toyshop / Love Lies Bleeding / Holy Disorders / Swan Song / Buried For Pleasure / The Case of the Gilded Fly Author:Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop — Gervase Fen investigates an Oxford toy shop replaced overnight by a grocery store. Poetic Richard Cadogan found the apparently strangled body of an old woman upstairs, but she vanishes as well. — Love Lies Bleeding — Castrevenford school invites English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen ... more »to present the prizes at Speech Day. However the night before, strange events leave two staff members dead. The Headmaster calls on Professor Fen to investigate.
Holy Disorders
Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. Tracking down the culprit pleases Fen immensely. Did the victim fall afoul of German spies or local witches, practicing centuries?
Swan Song
Before odious Edwin Shorthouse can sing the lead in the first Oxford post-war Die Meistersinger, someone kills him in his own locked dressing room. Gervase Fen, eccentric professor of English Literature with a passion for amateur detecting, is on the case. American title is Dead and Dumb.
Buried For Pleasure
Professor Gervase Fen, always in pursuit of a witty epigram, declares candidacy for Parliament, ready to serve the good people of "Where was it again?" His political ambitions are sidetracked by the murdered policeman who crops up on the campaign trail, the escaped naked lunatic "Woodrow Wilson", a peculiar clergyman, and a love-struck pig.
The Case of the Gilded Fly
Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut, a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men. Rounding out the cast are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and the women who love them. And watching from the wings is Professor Gervase Fen-scholar, wit, and fop extraordinaire-who would rather solve crimes than expound on English literature. When Yseut is murdered, Fen finally gets his wish.« less