Read Series: Gervase Fen
by Author Edmund Crispin
Beware of the Trains (1987)
Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the mean-spirited Edgar Foley, or could the constable be responsible for the devious deed?Who on Earth will be able to untangle the affair of the disappearing car...
Buried for Pleasure (Gervase Fen, #6) (1976)
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",...
Frequent Hearses (1987)
Oxford don Gervase Fen is at the film studios to advise about a film biography of Alexander Pope, when he learns of Gloria's death. She appears to have little reason for wanting to kill herself. But when a cameraman is poisoned before his eyes, Fen finds himself involved in murder.
Holy Disorders (2006)
Originally published on my blog here in January 2000.Summoned by a telegram sent by his old friend Gervase Fen asking him to take over temporarily from the incapacitated organist at Tolnbridge Cathedral, Geoffrey Vintner finds himself involved in a strange plot: several attempts are made to preve...
The Moving Toyshop (1989)
Brilliant. Funny, erudite, and (forgive me) postmodern before meta was a meme. quotes to follow. I would have given it five stars but the plot devices were nowhere near seamless, though self-consciously presented and therefore, if not effective, then certainly endearing. Some of the more qu...
Fen Country: Twenty-Six Stories Featuring Gervase Fen (1981)
This is a collection of 26 very short stories, all of the detective whodunit variety, many featuring Crispin's eccentric Oxford English professor, Gervase Fen.The stories are so short that there is no room for character development or the weird side trips that make full-length adventures with Ger...