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Holy Disorders - Edmund Crispin
1958 English Penguin paperback 1st edition, London A good book with the usual paper tanning Small neat name to half title page Slight lean to spine but still tight A mystery with a University backdrop A reading copy For Sale at £5 (approx $9) *DF7 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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The Long Divorce - Edmund Crispin
1958 British Penguin softcover 1st edition, London A good plus book with a little light paper tanning No names or stamps etc Lean to spine but still tight Professor Gervase Fen visits a village incognito to investigate a mystery A bright solid copy For Sale at £5 (approx $9) *B7 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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Edmund Crispin was born in 1921 of Scots-Irish parentage. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages. He has been a pianist, o/ganist, and conductor since the age of fourteen and was for two years an assistant master at a public school. He travelled a certain amount before the war, particularly in Germany, where he totally failed to prognosticate the subsequent course of events. Edmund Crispin's real name is Bruce Montgomery, and he is a composer as well as a writer. His recreations are swimming, excessive smoking. Shakespeare, the operas of Wagner and Strauss, idleness, and cats. His antipathies are dogs, the French Film, the Renaissance of the British Film, psychoanalysis, the psychological-realistic crime story, and the contemporary theatre. His favourite detective novelist is John Dickson Carr. |
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