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.Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders.While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript. By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre.
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Edmund Crispin. Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding
1. Lasciva Puella
2. Find out Moonshine
3. Thieves Break in and Steal
4. Holocaust
5. Bloody-Man’s-Finger
6. Love Lies Bleeding
7. Saturnalia
8. The Death of a Witch
9. Love’s Labour’s Won
10. Meditations Among the Tombs
11. Reasoning but to Err
12. A Green Thought in a Green Shade
13. A Sennet: Enter Second Murderer
14. Exit, Pursued by a Bear
15. Rout
16. Eclipse
17. Peace Indivisible
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EDMUND CRISPIN
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‘Thank you, no. I must be back by the time morning school finishes.’
‘A pity. But you’ll be at the – ah – celebrations tomorrow?’
