Swan Song
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Author
Publication
2015 - Ipso Books, Newburyport, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
34,250 words, Guess
Page Count
137 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveswansong0000cris
- ISBN-101504048660
- ISBN-100008228035
- ISBN-101911295306
- ISBN-139781504048668
and 5 more
- ISBN-139780008228033
- ISBN-139781911295303
- OCLC Control Number999642739
- Better World Books9780008228033
- Open LibraryOL28373178M
Classifications
- DDC823.912
- LCCPZ3.M7681
- LCCPR6025.O46
Description
This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a spendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" (The New York Times). When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse, but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room' In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love. "One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story ... elegant, literate, and funny."--The Times of London "[Crispin's] books are fast, fun and smart, their hero charming, frivolous, brilliant and badly behaved."--New Review.
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Series Statement
- The Gervase Fen Mysteries
- Gervase Fen Mysteries
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