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.
GervaseFen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels...
September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his GervaseFen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On...
1969), American contestant on the show Survivor Gervase Phinn (born 1946), English educator GervaseFen, fictional detective in novels by Edmund Crispin...
place between Professor GervaseFen and others in the front parlour of the Eagle and Child. "There goes C. S. Lewis", said Fen suddenly. "It must be Tuesday...
novels; examples include Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night, Edmund Crispin's GervaseFen mysteries, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's Kate Fansler mysteries and Colin Dexter's...
detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, GervaseFen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature. The title comes...
amateur detective GervaseFen. 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...
second in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective GervaseFen. The novel is set in 1940 during the early stages of the Second World...
collection. They all feature Crispin's amateur detective and Oxford professor GervaseFen, an eccentric with a genius for solving complex cases. A number also...
the book contains the first appearance of eccentric amateur detective GervaseFen, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford...
eighth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective GervaseFen. It was the penultimate novel in the series, with a gap or more than...
Poopypants science The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin Professor GervaseFen English language and literature The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis...
while he was an undergraduate), introducing his amateur sleuth Prof. GervaseFen, is published. 1945 January: First woman given a professorship in the...
the Night Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book GervaseFen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin Edward Ferrars Sense...
decades after its composition leading performers of the tenor part included Gervase Elwes and John Coates, and Louise Kirkby Lunn, Elena Gerhardt and Julia...
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...
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...
en Angola (1845–1941). Montamets/Orgeval: Author's edition. See also: Gervase Clarence-Smith (2007). Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola...
In Hughes, Gervase; van Thal, Herbert (eds.). The Music Lover's Companion. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. OCLC 481972079. Hughes, Gervase (1960). The Music...
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)...
passion and crucifixion, was premiered in London, with soloists including Gervase Elwes and Clara Butt. The notices were good, ranging from polite to strongly...
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...