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Edmund Crispin (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 April 2007

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

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.

Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders.

While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript. By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre.

Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful - Before Morse, Oxford's murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (5 April 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099506211
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099506218
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A distinguished piece of detective fiction, constructed with real intelligence" (Daily Mail)

"A master of the whodunit...he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (New York Times)

"Master of fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek mystery novels, a blend of John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes, M.R. James, and the Marx Brothers" (Anthony Boucher)

"Never has Mr Crispin been in such good form" (Observer)

"All his work had a high-spiritedness rare and welcome in the crime story" (Julian Symons)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Love's Labours Won (or Lost?) 30 Dec 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The fifth Gervase Fen novel shows Crispin emerging as <i>himself</i>, and not as a clone of Carr, Innes or Mitchell. The writing is stylised and elegant, the rural setting is unmistakably Crispin, and the characters are eccentric without being demented. Furthermore, the plot is wonderful: lost Shakespearean manuscripts, murdered teachers and witches, the School Speech Day, and a particularly ingenious alibi. Gervase Fen is in top form throughout, and the reader is enthralled.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Crispin on top form in a classic mystery 10 Sep 2001
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Edmund Crispin's waspish sleuth, Dr. Gervase Fen, investigates multiple murder at a country school. The solution is elegant and satisfying, and Fen is as amusing as ever. Crispin is one of the finest prose stylists to write in this genre and, although he may not quite have the ingenuity of Christie or Carr, his work is always enjoyable and exciting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Chronicles of Crispin - Volume 5 (Love Lies Bleeding) 9 July 2012
By Kenneth F. Mcara TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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The first four-fifths or so of this book in the Gervase Fen mystery series by Edmund Crispin is highly entertaining, culminating in an exciting woodland search, rescue and chase.

Fen has been engaged by the headmaster of a private school to give the prize-day speech at the end of session, and - of course - he becomes embroiled in sudden drama. This includes a double-murder mystery, abduction (or is it a third murder?), a heroic dog and the apparent discovery of a priceless, long-lost seventeenth-century literary manuscript. Some important conversations take place in a local inn, where the hilarious `Charlie Rumbles' incident is beautifully written.

Unfortunately, the final fifth of this book is largely devoted to Fen explaining how he worked out what was going on, which - after the tension which was built up throughout the rest of the book - becomes anticlimactic due to its length.

Two cheers, then, for this effort, which for the majority of the novel is very enjoyable indeed.
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