Edmund Crispin (1921–1978)

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Inclou aquests noms: E. CRISPIN, Edmund Crispen, Edmund Crispin, Edmund Crispim, Edumund Crispin, ed Edmund Crispin, ed. Edmund Crispin, Edmund Crispin Editor, EDITED EDMUND CRISPIN, EDITOR: EDMUND CRISPIN, EDMUND CRISPIN - Editor, Edmund Mystery - Crispin, Edmund Crispin (edited by)

Inclou també: Bruce Montgomery (1)

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Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, 1921—1978, an English crime writer, science-fiction anthologist and composer.

Writing as Edmund Crispin he is known for his detective novels and short stories featuring Oxford professor, Gervase Fen.

Writing as Bruce Montgomery, he was a prolific composer of vocal and film music.

(ger) Edmund Crispin war das Pseudonym von Robert Bruce Montgomery, 1921—1978, einem englischen Krimiautor, Science-fiction-Herausgeber und Komponisten. Unter dem Namen Edmund Crispin ist er bekannt für seine Detektivromane und -erzählungen um den Oxford-Professor Gervase Fen. Writing as Bruce Montgomery, he was a prolific composer of vocal and film music.

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The Moving Toyshop (1946) 1,416 exemplars

The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) 896 exemplars

Holy Disorders (1946) 603 exemplars

Love Lies Bleeding (1948) 583 exemplars

Buried for Pleasure (1948) 469 exemplars

Frequent Hearses (1950) 456 exemplars

Swan Song (1947) 448 exemplars

The Glimpses of the Moon (1977) 420 exemplars

The Long Divorce (1951) 381 exemplars

Beware of the Trains (1953) 305 exemplars

Fen Country (1979) 251 exemplars

Best SF Two (1956) — Editor — 92 exemplars

Best SF (1955) — Editor — 76 exemplars

Best SF Four (1961) — Editor — 66 exemplars

Best SF Three (1958) — Editor — 56 exemplars

The Edmund Crispin Treasury Volume 1 (1974) 31 exemplars

Best SF Six (1966) — Editor — 31 exemplars

Best SF Five (1963) — Editor — 30 exemplars

Best SF Seven (1970) — Editor — 24 exemplars

The Edmund Crispin Treasury Volume 3 (1976) 23 exemplars

The Edmund Crispin Treasury Volume 2 (1976) 22 exemplars

Best Detective Stories (1959) — Editor; Col·laborador — 17 exemplars

The Stars and Under: A Selection of Science Fiction (1968) — Editor — 13 exemplars

Best Tales of Terror (1962) 12 exemplars

Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 (1982) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars

Nur ein Marsweib und andere Science-Fiction-Stories. (1959) 4 exemplars

Best Murder Stories 2 (1973) 3 exemplars

The Amorous Flea: A Musical Comedy Based on Molière's School for Wives — Redactor/compositor — 3 exemplars

‘We Know You’re Busy Writing…’: The Collected Short Stories of Edmund Crispin (2023) 3 exemplars

Esther: Intrigue in the Palace 2 exemplars

Black Opal | I Found Him Dead | Dead and Dumb 2 exemplars

Holy Disorders | Buried for Pleasure | Swan Song (2017) 2 exemplars

The Edmund Crispin Treasury Volumes 1 & 2 (2010) 2 exemplars

We Know You're Busy Writing... [Short Story] 2 exemplars

Best Detective Stories (Volume 2) (1964) — Editor — 2 exemplars

Best Tales of Terror: No. 2 (1965) 2 exemplars

Danger, Writer at Work 1 exemplars

Who Killed Baker? [Short story] 1 exemplars

My Joy, My Life, My Crown! 1 exemplars

The Crime by the River [Short story] 1 exemplars

Science Fiction Stories 1 exemplars

6 Titles By Edmund Crispin Gervase Fen Series : The Case of the Gilded Fly - Holy Disorders - Love Lies Bleeding -… 1 exemplars

The Hunchback Cat [Short story] 1 exemplars

We Know You're Busy Writing... 1 exemplars

Buried for Pleasure: Gervase Fen #6 1 exemplars

Crispin Edmund (Robert Bruce Montgomery) 1 exemplars

Man Overboard [short story] (1954) 1 exemplars

The Case of the Gilded Fly | Who Killed Baker? (1976) 1 exemplars

Long Distance 1 exemplars

Best Tales of Horror 1 exemplars

Outwards from Earth 1 exemplars

Club del Misterio, Volum 12 -Los grandes cuentos detectivescos I- (1983) 1 exemplars

Four Shakespeare Songs. Second Set. [No. 1.] Take, O take those Lips away. [No. 2.] When lcicles hang by the Wall. [No.… — Redactor/compositor — 1 exemplars

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The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990) — Col·laborador — 392 exemplars

Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Col·laborador — 349 exemplars

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries (2015) — Col·laborador — 227 exemplars

Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles (2021) — Col·laborador — 149 exemplars

Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Col·laborador — 99 exemplars

Great Irish Detective Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 88 exemplars

Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves (2019) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars

The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985) — Col·laborador — 79 exemplars

The Measure of Malice: Scientific Mysteries (2019) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars

Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden… (2019) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars

The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus (1984) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars

Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2019) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars

Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2022) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars

Bodies from the Library 4 (2021) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars

Murder on a Winter's Night (2021) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars

Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars

Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer (2020) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars

The Best Horror Stories (1977) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars

Great detective stories (1998) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars

Murder by the Seaside: Classic Crime Stories for Summer (2022) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars

The Neat Little Corpse | Murder's Web | Sudden Vengeance (1950) 8 exemplars

Evening Standard Detective Book: Second Series (1951) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars

The Best of Winter's Crimes: A selection from Winter's Crimes 1-17, .Vol 1 (1986) 7 exemplars

Classic short stories of crime and detection, 1950-1975 (1983) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars

The Gollancz Detective Omnibus (1951) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars

Some Like Them Dead (1960) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

Evening Standard Detective Book (1950) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

Classic Crime 5 Book Gift Set (1988) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

The Best Science Fiction Stories of C. M. Kornbluth — Introducció, algunes edicions — 5 exemplars

Best crime stories. 4 (1971) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars

Winter's Crimes 4 (1972) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars

Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 18th Annual Collection (1963) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars

Fowl Play | The Long Divorce | The Case of the Angry Mourner (1951) 3 exemplars

Nye detektivhistorier fra hele verden — Autor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars

John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book 1971 (1970) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

The Second Gollancz Detective Omnibus (1952) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Classic Crime Gift Set--Police At the Funeral, the Moving Toyshop, Death At the President's Lodging (1988) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Sixteen on — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Appendici in giallo 1 (racconti) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial: Montgomery, Robert Bruce
Altres noms: Montgomery, Bruce
Data de naixement: 1921-10-02
Data de defunció: 1978-09-15
Gènere: male
Nacionalitat: UK
Lloc de naixement: Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Lloc de defunció: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Llocs de residència: Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Educació: Oxford University (St. John's College)
Professions: schoolmaster
musician
writer (filmscript and filmscore)
crime novelist
anthologist
composer
Organitzacions: Detection Club
Premis i honors: Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1963)
Nota de desambiguació: Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, 1921—1978, an English crime writer, science-fiction anthologist and composer. Writing as Edmund Crispin he is known for his detective novels and short stories featuring Oxford professor, Gervase Fen. Writing as Bruce Montgomery, he was a prolific composer of vocal and film music.

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The Moving Toyshop (Penguin Classic Crime) de Edmund Crispin

Pretty slight but pleasant enough mystery/adventure novel. A lot of focus on all the capers that happen along the way, less on the mystery. A lot of people here think it's funny but the writing isn't too good and the situations, which although not that funny could be salvaged with good writing, just seem a bit dull. The mystery makes sense and I'm pretty sure you can solve it, although it's not a particularly exciting one. He makes sure to inject his own upper class prejudices into it - his treatment of women is crap with a few misogynist remarks and he pointlessly inserts some insults against socialism through overhearing an anonymous, irrelevant person in a pub.

About 60% of the way through, there's a big (ridiculous, contrived) plot dump done by somebody who's about to murder them... he just dumps all this information on them because??? and a briefcase which would wrap up the case instantly is heavily pointed out... and then a few minutes later both the main characters apparently totally forget about it until it's too late and it's stolen. I mean if he'd done it better I'd see it as some clever mystery genre satire, but it's a bit naff. Obviously it'd be silly if the story just ended there, but why even bring it up in the first place.

Overall it's no more than OK. There are better writers of this sort of thing and the attempted humour just falls flat.… (més)

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tombomp | Hi ha 61 ressenyes més | Oct 31, 2023 |

The Long Divorce (A Gervase Fen Mystery) de Edmund Crispin

trying to figure out the title - what WAS the long divorce - did not catch the reference on first read

Crispin funny as always - loved the way Fen wrapped bandage around his head to get the sympathy he felt due him

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Overgaard | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Sep 18, 2023 |

The Case of the Gilded Fly (The First Gervase Fen… de Edmund Crispin

Very much of its time and place, I suppose. Lots and lots of pretentious "sparkling" dialog, oceans of alcohol, torrents of multi-syllabic Oxonian vocabulary. Not even very well-crafted: Fen knows within minutes who the murderer is, and the rest of the book stretches out interminably as he teases and hints, and in one place actually names the murderer to another character, but WE are not privy to what he says. Women are either sexual predators or desperately seeking, and not much else. Dated, tricksy, and mostly tedious. I won't read another.… (més)

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JulieStielstra | Hi ha 38 ressenyes més | Sep 4, 2023 |