Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels...
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September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On...
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Gervase is a masculine given name which may refer to: Ordered chronologically Gervase of Besançon (died 685), saint and a bishop of Besançon Gervase of...
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people are murdered. Collaborating with the local police, Oxford don Gervase Fen, a professor of English who happens to be the guest of honour at the...
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Edmund Crispin. It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards...
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second in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. The novel is set in 1940 during the early stages of the Second World...
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place between Professor Gervase Fen and others in the front parlour of the Eagle and Child. "There goes C. S. Lewis", said Fen suddenly. "It must be Tuesday...
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novels; examples include Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night, Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen mysteries, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's Kate Fansler mysteries and Colin Dexter's...
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detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature. The title comes...
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collection. They all feature Crispin's amateur detective and Oxford professor Gervase Fen, an eccentric with a genius for solving complex cases. A number also...
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fourth in his series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen. It was the first in a new three-book contract the author has signed...
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the book contains the first appearance of eccentric amateur detective Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford...
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amateur detective Gervase Fen. As with the rest of the Fen novels, a complex Golden Age-style mystery is combined with elements of farce. Fen contests a by-election...
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found her charmless, whilst to Edmund Crispin's fictional detective Gervase Fen she and her sisters were "intolerable...those husband-hunting minxes...
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Dons contains a scene set in Parson's Pleasure. Edmund Crispin's first Gervase Fen novel, 'The Moving Toyshop,' puts the climax of a riotous chase at the...
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eighth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. It was the penultimate novel in the series, with a gap or more than...
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Auguste Dupin, Sir John Appleby, Inspector Ghote, Nigel Strangeways and Gervase Fen. Many of the episodes were introduced by Rupert Davies, in-character...
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Poopypants science The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin Professor Gervase Fen English language and literature The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis...
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while he was an undergraduate), introducing his amateur sleuth Prof. Gervase Fen, is published. 1945 January: First woman given a professorship in the...
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Beerbohm Robert Elsmere by Mrs Humphry Ward Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin Edward Ferrars Sense...
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have I — She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour, League after grassy league from Lincoln tower To Stilton in the fields, she is a Fen. Yet this high cheese...
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Lad. A typical performance lasts around 22 minutes. It was premiered by Gervase Elwes, Frederick Kiddle and the Schwiller Quartet on 15 November 1909 in...
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decades after its composition leading performers of the tenor part included Gervase Elwes and John Coates, and Louise Kirkby Lunn, Elena Gerhardt and Julia...
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probably had three illegitimate sons, Gervase, Abbot of Westminster, Ralph and Americ, by his mistress Damette; Gervase became abbot in 1138, but after his...
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Hobbes. Hobbes soon (in 1629) found work as a tutor to Gervase Clifton, the son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, mostly spent in Paris, until November...
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en Angola (1845–1941). Montamets/Orgeval: Author's edition. See also: Gervase Clarence-Smith (2007). Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola...
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In Hughes, Gervase; van Thal, Herbert (eds.). The Music Lover's Companion. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. OCLC 481972079. Hughes, Gervase (1960). The Music...
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Nova Man (Der Nova-Mann, 1987, Collection of the first four books) The Gervase Factor (Mission Galaxis, 1988) The Lost Fleet (Der Weltraum-Friedhof, 1988)...
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passion and crucifixion, was premiered in London, with soloists including Gervase Elwes and Clara Butt. The notices were good, ranging from polite to strongly...
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Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1679) November 25 – Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1666) December 13 – Emmanuel...
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