Frequent Hearses (The Gervase Fen Mysteries) - Softcover

Crispin, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1448216893 ISBN 13: 9781448216895

Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader, 2017

Synopsis

Stars, Starlets, Floozies and factotums to the film world Gervase Fen suspects them all... The young actress, Gloria Scott, drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge. The news sends shock-waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen, Oxford Don and amateur criminologist, just so happens to be working. With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby, the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places. Young Ms. Scotts apartment has been searched, and all signs of her real identity have been removed, and whats more, minutes before Humbleby interrogates her co-workers, one of them, a lecherous cameraman, is poisoned. Equal parts compelling, witty and ingenuous, this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction. First published in 1950, Frequent Hearses was Edmund Crispins seventh novel.

About this title

Review:

One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction: Crispin's storytelling is intelligent, humane, surprising and rattling good fun (A.L. Kennedy)

Book Description:

Classic British detective series featuring eccentric Oxford don Gervase Fen

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1448216893
• ISBN 13: 9781448216895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240