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El quisquilloso profesor y detective aficionado Gervase Fen ha abandonado durante el verano su amada Universidad de Oxford para acudir al pueblo costero de Tolnbridge, donde planea pasar tranquilamente sus vacaciones. Va armado con una red para insectos, ya que piensa dedicarse al arte de la...

La escuela Castrevenford está inmersa en los preparativos para celebrar el fin de curso, y el excéntrico profesor de Oxford y detective aficionado Gervase Fen (al que ya conocimos en La juguetería errante y El canto del cisne), liberado de sus obligaciones laborales, ha sido...

La juguetería errante es un clásico de la novela de detectives inglesa, considerado unánimemente una de las cumbres indiscutibles del género. Cuando el poeta Richard Cadogan decide pasar unos días de vacaciones en Oxford tras una discusión con el avaro...

Hastiado de la aburrida vida universitaria, el excéntrico profesor y detective amateur Gervase Fen (La juguetería errante y Asesinato en la catedral) decide tomarse un descanso y trasladarse al remoto pueblo de Sanford Angelorum, en plena campiña inglesa, para presentarse...

Las compañías de teatro suelen ser siempre un hervidero de habladurías. Pero pocas son tan intrigantes como la que se encuentra actuando en estos momentos en Oxford. La joven y letal Yseut, actriz algo mediocre y maliciosa, es el centro de todas las miradas, aunque su...

Tras el éxito de La juguetería errante, vuelve el profesor de Oxford y detective aficionado Gervase Fen, para resolver otro extraño crimen a puerta cerrada. Cuando una encopetada compañía de ópera recala en Oxford para poner en marcha la primera...

A collection of short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.

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. Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming...

Detective Inspector Humbleby explains to series-favourite Gervase Fen why the police like blackmail cases when relaying the story of two American brothers, Saul and Harry Colonna, and their boating fun that ended in disaster.

In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance, the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful, but Fen soon discovers that appearances can be deceptive: someone in the village has discovered a dark secret and is using it for blackmail. Anyone who comes close to uncovering the blackmailer's identity is swiftly dispatched.

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...

I en sen nattetime finder digteren Cadogan ved et tilfaelde liget af en gammel dame i en legetøjsbutik i Oxford. Naeste morgen er legetøjsbutikken forsvundet, og der ligger en købmandsbutik i stedet. Ingen - ikke engang politiet - virker spor overraskede. Heldigvis er Cadogan ven med Gervase Fen, som er professor i engelsk sprog og litteratur ved universitetet i Oxford og en yderst staedig og skarpsindig amatørdetektiv. Fen vil med glaede efterforske en forbrydelse, der tilsyneladende ikke findes.

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...

Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter … just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery...

When a decapitated head is seen floating down the river in the Devon village of Aller, the rural calm is shattered. Soon the corpses are multiplying, and the entire community is involved in the hunt for the murderer. Whilst many chase false trails, it is left to Gervase Fen, Oxford don and amateur criminologist, to uncover the sordid truth...

A collection of 16 short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor? Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the...

Long inhabited by a collection of profoundly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and well to do arriving in the village of Cotten Abbas…and not everyone is happy about it. New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry. Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved.

When young actress Gloria Scott throws herself from Waterloo Bridge, the news sends shockwaves through her film studio. Luckily Gervase Fen is in London to investigate. But when someone acts fast to cover up any evidence – removing all signs of Ms Scott’s identity from her apartment and poisoning a suspicious cameraman – the truth is hard to find.

Grausame Morde sorgen für Verunsicherung und Unruhe in einem kleinen englischen Dorf in Devon. Erfahrungen mit brutalen Enthauptungen hat hier niemand und die örtliche Polizei ist mehr als ratlos. Bald folgt ein Mord auf den anderen und das gesamte Dorf ist auf der Jagd nach dem Täter. Ein Schuldiger ist schnell gefunden, doch dann geschieht die nächste Tat, während der noch hinter Gittern sitzt. Damit Schluss ist mit dem Verfolgen falscher Fährten, eilt Gervase Fen, Oxford-Professor und Amateurdetektiv, zu Hilfe. Nur er kann es schaffen, die schmutzige Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen.

Die Einwohner des kleinen englischen Ortes Cotton Abbas haben ein Problem: Immer mehr Neureiche zieht es in das florierende Dörfchen - und das gefällt bei Weitem nicht jedem. Bald nach ihrer Ankunft erhalten die Neuankömmlinge anonyme Briefe, prall gefüllt mit dunklen Geheimnissen und dreckiger Wäsche. Unter den Einwohnern wachsen Hass und Niedertracht. Anonyme Nachrichten sind eine Sache, doch bald schon stören noch ernsthaftere Ereignisse den Frieden in Cotton Abbas: ein Mord, ein Selbstmord und ein mysteriöses Verschwinden.