Edmund Crispin (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
The Gervase Fen series, 1944-1977.
Principal Series Character
Gervase Fen, a professor of English language and literature at the University of Oxford and an infallible amateur sleuth. He is a brilliant, eccentric Oxford don whose powers of deductive reasoning are matched by his wit, impatience, and exceedingly high opinion of himself. By turns childish, charming, irrepressible, and easily bored, Fen is married and a father, although his family plays almost no part in the series.
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Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen...
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