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Holy Disorders (Hardcover)

by Edmund Crispin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Walker & Co (Nov 1979)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802754112
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802754110
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Who crushed to death a cathedral organist who didn't have an enemy in the world? Only Gervase Fen can track down the murderer in this witty and surreal whodunnit --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having for two years been its organist and choirmaster. From 1943 to 1945 he taught at Shrewsbury School and in 1944 published the first of nine Gervase Fen novels, The Case of the Gilded Fly. He became a well respected reviewer of crime, writing for the Sunday Times from 1967 until his death in 1978. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A true gem, 23 April 2003
By Mr. Richard A. Drew (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holy Disorders (Classic Crime) (Paperback)
If you've read Crispin's 'The Moving Toyshop' you'll already be wanting to read this book, if you've read neither 'The Moving Toyshop' or 'Holy Disorders' then you've missed a couple of real treats.

'Holy Disorders' is one of my favourite Crispin novels featuring great characters who whilst they perhaps border on caricatures are such great fun it would be churlish to complain. The setting is a small town in wartime England and centres around the local clergy. It features Gervase Fen, the wonderfully eccentric Professor of English, a true Don. Humour and tight clever plotting recall Michael Innes or Carter Dickson at their very best.

Highly recommended for lovers of the classic English crime novel.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the classics, 4 April 2008
By Damaskcat (UK) - See all my reviews
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I read most of Edmund Crispin many years ago and enjoyed them. Holy Disorders defintely bears re-reading. The plot is complex and reamrkably up to date if you just think terrorists instead of German spies! Why did the two inoffensive victims meet their maker? Gervase Fen - English don and amiable eccentric - asks his friend Geoffrey Vintner to help him find out. But there will be many twists and turns before the murderers are unmasked and many red herrings. The writing is sharp and precise and there are flashes of humour and acknowledgments that this is a book and the characters are part of a story, which could seem artificial in less skilful hands, but here it hits just the right note. Well worth a read especially if you love the Golden Age of British detective fiction.
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