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Bloomsbury Publishing
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. When young actress Gloria Scott throws herself from Waterloo Bridge, the news sends shockwaves through her film studio. Luckily Gervase Fen is in London to investigate.
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LibraryThing member Eurydice
After the first few over-wrought pages, Frequent Hearses is more sombre, intelligent, and entertaining than Crispin often managed. The mystery and its conclusion are less satisfying than the book's individual pages; but for reading pleasure beyond mere plot, this is a good one.
LibraryThing member leslie.98
I found this entry in the Gervase Fen series a little disappointing - Fen himself is absent for a good portion of the book. The mystery itself though is one of Crispin's usual quality. I suspected the guilty party early on but then was led astray by the cleverly done red herrings
LibraryThing member Figgles
A re-read, I find Crispin's Fen books interesting but there's a remoteness about the writing that makes me wonder if Crispin actually likes any of his characters, and there seems to be a deliberate use of arcane vocabulary that's a little off putting (it's not the era, many other earlier writers
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manage without bamboozling the reader with their cleverness). This one is no exception, beginning (almost) with the suicide of a film starlet, which leads to a series of murders. There's a fantastic scene in a maze (not, as Crispin calls it a labyrinth, labyrinths have one route through them, an odd slip up for the author), which to later readers calls to mind Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but I'm not sure it's enough to make one care too much. I'll continue with a re-read of others of his works. Show Less
LibraryThing member piemouth
Another snappy mystery featuring Gervase Fen, who's consulting at a film studio on a biography of Alexander Pope. When a young starlet kills herself, that seems sad but not mysterious. But then a camera man drop dead...
Lots of quotations and other fun references to look up. I don't know much about
Lots of quotations and other fun references to look up. I don't know much about
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Pope. Show Less
LibraryThing member Overgaard
Humbleby is fun, but this not my favorite Fen - a bit dull
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Original publication date
1950