- Unknown Binding: 126 pages
- Publisher: Joseph W. Ferman; Abridged ed edition (1949)
- Language English
- ASIN: B0007KBVUQ
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gervase Fen, the hero, is on first encountering him, an apparently simple character - a gentleman private detective in the mould of Albert Campion, although more intellectual than aristocratic.
As the character develops one can discern a more complex character, with hints of the genteel fashion of Miss Marple, tempered by the more prosaic nature brought about by exposure to human frailties. Being from an academic centre, one is drawn to the comparison of Fen with Morse, but this does not really exist, since Morse is more obviously romantic in his soul and yet more professional through his official position.
The book explores a familiar scene - the idyll of country life facing upheaval, but with the added twist of a backdrop of a by-election, which provides a sort of stabilising sub-text. Red herrings are not particularly in evidence, although all aspects of the book are relatively understated. The whodunnit element is not particularly taxing, but one tends to forget that and concentrate more on the quality of the writing.
A great book to relax with for crime acolytes with a penchant for the rather older English detective story.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From previous reading and critical judgement, I had viewed this as the best of the Fen stories - unfortunately, it is not. Crispin's humour - both through political satire, and through Mitchellian imagination (escaped lunatics, vicars and poltergeists) - is at its best, but the detective story plot is rather weak: there are no red herrings, no suspects, and the reader is likely to tumble to the murderer's identity. Fen's political manoeuvres obviously take precedence in Crispin's mind over Fen's detection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Edmund Crispin is literate, articulate and often tongue in cheek. If you enjoy novels from the Golden Age of Crime, this is a good book to curl up with while you drink wine or coffee. The characters and plot won't stay with you for long after you have read it, but while you are reading it you will relax and be gently amused. If you know some of the classics of English Literature, there are references that may reinforce a sense of being part of a well-read club. Books don't all have to be great and make intellectual demands; some can simply be fun and this is one of those - undemanding, but carefully crafted.
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Wonderful humour
This is my first Crispin, and I was struck by the Wodehouseesque humour throughout. There are many hilarious interludes, but, as a crime novel, there is an inadequate plot and no... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Donald Hughes
Crime with a smile
Edmund Crispin's "crime" novels are always rather quirky but eminently well-written; they're flavoured with just a soupçon of old English whodunnit, laced with a quiet, understated... Read more
Published 13 months ago by daveB
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