[Gervase Fen 11] • Fen Country · 26 Stories
- Authors
- Crispin, Edmund
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Tags
- oxfordshire (england) , gervase fen , fen; gervase (fictitious character) , mystery , english teachers , detective and mystery stories , detective and mystery stories; english
- ISBN
- 9780140088151
- Date
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.19 MB
- Lang
- en
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 stories by one of the great masters of detective fiction.
Contents:
• Who Killed Baker?
• Death and Aunt Fancy
• The Hunchback Cat
• The Lion’s Tooth
• Gladstone’s Candlestick
• The Man Who Lost His Head
• The Two Sisters
• Outrage in Stepney
• A Country to Sell
• A Case in Camera
• Blood Sport
• The Pencil
• Windhover Cottage
• The House by the River
• After Evensong
• Death Behind Bars
• We Know You’re Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn’t Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute
• Cash on Delivery
• Shot in the Dark
• The Mischief Done
• Merry-Go-Round
• Occupational Risk
• Dog in the Night-Time
• Man Overboard
• The Undraped Torso
• Wolf!