Ein bei den Schauspielern gänzlich unbeliebtes Mitglied des Oxforder Theaterensembles wird erschossen in einem hermetisch verschlossenen Raum aufgefunden. Der Amateurdetektiv und Philologe Gervase Fen glaubt nicht an Selbstmord.
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Diese Serie stellt einen brillanten, aber liebenswert exzentrischen Englischprofessor aus Oxford vor. Mit einem scharfen Blick für Details und einem ausgeprägten Intellekt nimmt er komplexe Morde und verwirrende Mysterien in Angriff, die die Polizei oft in die Irre führen. Jede Folge bietet ein sorgfältig ausgearbeitetes Rätsel, das die Leser einlädt, vielschichtige Handlungsstränge gemeinsam mit einem beliebten akademischen Ermittler zu entschlüsseln.
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Richard Cadogan, Dichter in der Midlife-Krise, fährt nach Oxford. Bei seinem nächtlichen Eintreffen entdeckt er in einem Spielzeugladen die Leiche einer Frau. Es kommt, wie es immer kommt: Als die Polizei eintrifft, ist nicht nur die Leiche verschwunden, sondern gleich der ganze Laden. Nur Literaturprofessor Gervase Fen glaubt die Geschichte - er weiß, dass die Wirklichkeit manchmal seltsamer ist als die Fiktion. Mit allerlei seltsamen Gehilfen gelingt es Fen, einen Fall voller Slapstick aufzudecken.
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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.
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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.
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Love Lies Bleeding
- 272 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
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.
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The classic crime thrillers of Edmund Crispin are quite unlike any others in their constantly digressing good humour, their smart puzzle-setting and their strong-skewed sense of what is right and fair. In Buried for Pleasure, his don-detective Gervase Fenn comes to the out-of-way village of Sanford Angelorum to stand in a Parliamentary by-election; he has just finished a major piece of academic work and needs diversion. Almost at once, he recognises another guest in the hotel as an incognito police inspector from London, learns of a local woman poisoned by her blackmailer and then Inspector Bussy is killed, seemingly stabbed in the throat by an escaped lunatic. Not especially enjoying the by-election, Fenn takes a hand in the investigation and finds himself caught up with dotty psychiatrists, ecclesiastical poltergeists, lost heirs and a small and unappealing pig. As Jonathan Gash points out in his introduction, it would be a mistake to regard this as merely cosy or merely a romp; the Crispin novels showed what could be done to the detective novel with a bit of style. Fenn is a fascinating detective because we get to know so much of the over-stocked interior of his highly intelligent head.
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Gervase Fen is serving as a story consultant for a film biography on Alexander Pope when one of the bit players committs suicide. Someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to cover up the real identity of the victim. Then the cameraman is poisoned right before his eyes and Fen finds himself consulting on the more familiar matter of murder
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The little village of Cotton Abbas is home to both an irritating influx of England's newly rich and a deliciously weird clutch of long-time locals. Chief among the latter: Colonel Babbington, whose cat, Lavender, is remarkably clumsy and also convinced that he is responsible for saving the world from a Martian invasion. Lavender may be a little odd, to say the least, but his unusual psychic gifts prove unexpectedly helpful to Fen (visiting incognito) as he attempts to discover who is responsible for the village's epidemic of ugly anonymous letters.
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In einem sehr englischen Dorf in Devon folgt ein grausamer Mord dem anderen. Und Professor Fen aus Oxford versucht wieder einmal, hinter ein raffiniertes Puzzle zu kommen, um den Mörder zu entlarven. Der Pfarrer, der Major und der alte Gobbo spielen mit ihm Detektiv - sehr zum Mißvergnügen von Kriminal-Superintendent Ling. Am Ende steht eine Jagd aller gegen alle. Und wer die Lösung eher als Fen findet, hat einen Orden für höhere Kriminalistik verdient...
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Fen Country
- 221 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter … just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories by one of the great masters of detective fiction.Contents:• Who Killed Baker?• Death and Aunt Fancy• The Hunchback Cat• The Lion’s Tooth• Gladstone’s Candlestick• The Man Who Lost His Head• The Two Sisters• Outrage in Stepney• A Country to Sell• A Case in Camera• Blood Sport• The Pencil• Windhover Cottage• The House by the River• After Evensong• Death Behind Bars• We Know You’re Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn’t Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute• Cash on Delivery• Shot in the Dark• The Mischief Done• Merry-Go-Round• Occupational Risk• Dog in the Night-Time• Man Overboard• The Undraped Torso• Wolf!
