Edmund Crispin (1921–1978)
Author of The Moving Toyshop
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(ger) Edmund Crispin war das Pseudonym von Robert Bruce Montgomery, 1921—1978, einem englischen Krimiautor, Science-fiction-Herausgeber und Komponisten. Unter dem Namen Edmund Crispin ist er bekannt für seine Detektivromane und -erzählungen um den Oxford-Professor Gervase Fen. Writing as Bruce Montgomery, he was a prolific composer of vocal and film music.
Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote crime stories and edited anthologies using the pen name Edmund Crispin. He composed music using the name Bruce Montgomery.
Series
Works by Edmund Crispin
We Know You're Busy Writing, but We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just… [short story] (2022) 4 copies
The Amorous Flea: A Musical Comedy Based on Molière's School for Wives — Composer — 3 copies
Intrigue in the Palace 2 copies
Outwards from Earth 2 copies
My Joy, My Life, My Crown! 1 copy
Best Detective Stories 2 1 copy
La morte nel villaggio 1 copy
The Year and the Day 1 copy
The Hours of Darkness 1 copy
Science Fiction Stories 1 copy
Ritornello di Morte 1 copy
Best Tales of Horror 1 copy
Associated Works
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Contributor — 405 copies, 4 reviews
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Contributor — 161 copies, 11 reviews
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection (2019) — Contributor — 97 copies, 3 reviews
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Contributor — 75 copies, 1 review
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Contributor — 47 copies, 1 review
Puzzles of the Parish: Short Tales of Ministers, Murder and Mystery 151 (British Library Crime Classics) (2026) — Contributor — 13 copies, 1 review
The Gollancz Detective Omnibus: The Moving Toyshop, Appleby's End, Unnatural Death (1951) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Best Science Fiction Stories of C. M. Kornbluth — Introduction, some editions — 5 copies
Black Opal | I Found Him Dead | Dead and Dumb — Contributor — 2 copies
Appendici in giallo 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
Classic Crime Gift Set--Police At the Funeral, the Moving Toyshop, Death At the President's Lodging (1988) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Robert Bruce Montgomery
- Other names
- Edmund Crispin
Bruce Montgomery - Birthdate
- 1921-10-02
- Date of death
- 1978-09-15
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- crime writer
composer - Disambiguation notice
- Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote crime stories and edited anthologies using the pen name Edmund Crispin. He composed music using the name Bruce Montgomery.
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Reviews
Si bien el papel de Gervase Fen es fundamental, el protagonismo de ‘Asesinato en la catedral’ se lo lleva Geoffrey Vintner, organista y compositor, que parece un trasunto de Dr. Watson de segunda. La acción se sitúa en la población de Tolnbridge, donde es citado Vintner urgentemente mediante telegrama por Fen, ya que ha habido un atentado contra la vida de Brooks, el organista de la catedral de dicha ciudad. Y hasta allí que se desplace el bueno de Vintner, con más de una dificultad show more durante el trayecto.
‘Asesinato en la catedral’ (Holy Disorders, 1946), del escritor británico Edmund Crispin (seudónimo de Bruce Montgomery), nos vuelve a ofrecer otra estupenda aventura del excéntrico Gervase Fen, profesor de literatura de Oxford y detective aficionado. Fen a veces se comporta de manera exasperadamente infantil, pero también es ingenioso y erudito, con sus constantes citas a Lewis Carroll. De nuevo Crispin nos ofrece una novela inteligente, donde hace uso de referencias a detectives y a la literatura en general, y no faltan algunos momentos de humor. Los personajes secundarios están muy conseguidos, y es uno de sus puntos fuertes. show less
‘Asesinato en la catedral’ (Holy Disorders, 1946), del escritor británico Edmund Crispin (seudónimo de Bruce Montgomery), nos vuelve a ofrecer otra estupenda aventura del excéntrico Gervase Fen, profesor de literatura de Oxford y detective aficionado. Fen a veces se comporta de manera exasperadamente infantil, pero también es ingenioso y erudito, con sus constantes citas a Lewis Carroll. De nuevo Crispin nos ofrece una novela inteligente, donde hace uso de referencias a detectives y a la literatura en general, y no faltan algunos momentos de humor. Los personajes secundarios están muy conseguidos, y es uno de sus puntos fuertes. show less
What a deliciously good read. I plowed through it in an afternoon just because it was so enthralling. How's this for a stumper: one night, a poet stumbles into a toyshop and finds a dead body. Then he is knocked out, shoved into a closet, and left there till morning. He manages to get out the next day, heads for the police station, and tells them his story. The police accompany him to the toyshop -- or rather, what he thought was a toyshop. For in its place on this sunny Oxford morning is a show more grocery store. It's always been a grocery store, too. Is Cadogan off his rocker, concussed or just remembering a bad dream?
Fortunately, Cadogan's friend, Professor Gervase Fen, is not so willing to cast this story aside. Quite the contrary: he throws himself into the investigation with zeal and untangles a nasty little web of greed and conspiracy in the process.
As always, Fen is quite the eccentric, solving the case with little regard for normalities or the police. A lot of little coincidences help build up his clue-book, but perhaps that's just how crimes can be solved: some of it's legwork, some of it is logical processing and deduction, and some of it is sheer dumb luck, being in the right place at the right time. It all adds up to a great, breezy, charming read that should be read by anyone with an appreciation of the Golden Age of detective fiction. show less
Fortunately, Cadogan's friend, Professor Gervase Fen, is not so willing to cast this story aside. Quite the contrary: he throws himself into the investigation with zeal and untangles a nasty little web of greed and conspiracy in the process.
As always, Fen is quite the eccentric, solving the case with little regard for normalities or the police. A lot of little coincidences help build up his clue-book, but perhaps that's just how crimes can be solved: some of it's legwork, some of it is logical processing and deduction, and some of it is sheer dumb luck, being in the right place at the right time. It all adds up to a great, breezy, charming read that should be read by anyone with an appreciation of the Golden Age of detective fiction. show less
Professor of English Literature Gervase Fen helps out an old friend by agreeing at short notice to present the prizes at a school speech day - little expecting also to be called upon to investigate several murders and a kidnapping, and possibly - just possibly - to discover a lost Shakespearean manuscript.
A nicely-plotted mystery with excellent character sketches and a lot of depth. The insane bloodhound is a nice touch, and the scene with the headmaster interrogating the sixteen-year-old show more boy caught making illicit assignations with a girl is really very amusing. Fen is his usual self (but less annoying than he often is) and the whodunnit is satisfyingly complex. Well paced, well written, rich and full-bodied. In more than one sense.
The kind of book with which to snuggle down before a roaring fire (should you be so fortunate as to have access to one) on a really cold night, with either a large glass of wine or a large mug of cocoa depending on your preferences. show less
A nicely-plotted mystery with excellent character sketches and a lot of depth. The insane bloodhound is a nice touch, and the scene with the headmaster interrogating the sixteen-year-old show more boy caught making illicit assignations with a girl is really very amusing. Fen is his usual self (but less annoying than he often is) and the whodunnit is satisfyingly complex. Well paced, well written, rich and full-bodied. In more than one sense.
The kind of book with which to snuggle down before a roaring fire (should you be so fortunate as to have access to one) on a really cold night, with either a large glass of wine or a large mug of cocoa depending on your preferences. show less
Crispin writes in an ostentatiously pompous style with a rich vocabulary that often sends me to the dictionary, and with an overwhelming number of similes - all to jocular effect (I hope it is done on purpose). As to the plot, Gervaise Fen, invited to a prize-giving at a boys' school not far from Stratford-on-Avon, discovers the perpetrator(s) of three - perhaps four - murders motivated by the discovery of a lost manuscript thought to be by Shakespeare. He keeps the entangled threads of the show more mystery to himself until the conclusion. Fen almost falls asleep during his explanations of alibis and underhand plotting and blotting paper and I almost did too. Apart from the lengthy conclusion I found it all most enjoyable. A pity about Mr Merryweather. show less
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