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Gervase Fen
First appearanceThe Case of the Gilded Fly
Last appearanceFen Country
Created byEdmund Crispin
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GenderMale
OccupationOxford Professor, amateur sleuth
NationalityEnglish

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.

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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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Edmund Crispin

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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

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1969), American contestant on the show Survivor Gervase Phinn (born 1946), English educator Gervase Fen, fictional detective in novels by Edmund Crispin...

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The Inklings

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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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Campus novel

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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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The Moving Toyshop

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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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Buried for Pleasure

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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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Holy Disorders

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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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Beware of the Trains

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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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The Case of the Gilded Fly

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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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Elizabeth Bennet

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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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The Long Divorce

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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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List of fictional professors

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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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Timeline of Oxford

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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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List of fictional University of Oxford people

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the Night Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin Edward Ferrars Sense...

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The Dream of Gerontius

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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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Stilton cheese

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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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Thomas Hobbes

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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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Angolan Civil War

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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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Edward Elgar

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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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Kenneth Bulmer bibliography

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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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Franco Leoni

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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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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

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18 years (1868–1885) Edward Brocklehurst Fielden, 18 years (1906–1924) Fenner Brockway, 18 years (1931–1950) Thomas Onley, 17 years (1554–1572) Sir Thomas...

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