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Holy Disorders
A Gervase Fen Mystery (Related to this series)
- Author
- Edmund Crispin
- Narrator
- Paul Panting
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 4 June 2015
- Run Time
- 8 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
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.
Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world, and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century?
Critics Review
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"I very much enjoy Edmund Crispin, who's extremely frivolous, with a marvellous comic sense" (P.D. James)
"Fen at his very best" (New York Times Book Review)
"Holy Disorders, uncannily recreates the mood of an antiquarian ghost story" (Washington Post)
"A master of the whodunnit… he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (New York Times)
"Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity" (Philip Larkin)
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Details
- Author
- Edmund Crispin
- Narrator
- Paul Panting
- Duration
- 8 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 June 2015
- ISBN
- 9780008124205
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
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. Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world, and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century?
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