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Edmund Crispin, pseudonimo di Robert Bruce Montgomery ( Chesham Bois, 2 ottobre 1921 – Londra, 15 settembre 1978 ), è stato uno scrittore e compositore britannico . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Opere. 3 Composizioni musicali. 3.1 Colonne sonore. 4 Note. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 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 series. Life and work.
Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels and two books of short stories published between 1944 and 1979. Fen is an unconventional detective who is often faced with a locked room mystery to solve.
The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), written while Crispin was an undergraduate at Oxford and first published in the UK in 1944. It was published in the US a year later under the title Obsequies at Oxford.
Buried for Pleasure is a 1948 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the sixth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] . As with the rest of the Fen novels, a complex Golden Age -style mystery is combined with elements of farce. [2] .
Holy Disorders is a 1945 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. It the second in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] . The novel is set in 1940 during the early stages of the Second World War. The title is a reference to Chaucer. [2] Synopsis.
12 ago 2022 · Music composer Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), who as Edmund Crispin wrote eight glitteringly witty and amusing detective novels between 1944 and 1951 (as well as, with Geoffrey Bush, a fellow composer and the alleged son of detective novelist Christopher Bush, the classic short story “Who Killed Baker?”) is the subject of a now fifteen-year-old biography by […]
