The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)
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Author | Edmund Crispin |
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Language | English |
Series | Gervase Fen |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1977 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | Beware of the Trains |
Followed by | Fen Country |
The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin.[1] It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards[2] on publication it was the first novel in the series to be released since The Long Divorce in 1951. The author died the following year and in 1979 a final work Fen Country, a collection of short stories featuring the detective, was publish posthumously.[3]
The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is set in the village of Aller in rural Devon.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bargainnier, Earl F. Comic Crime. Popular Press, 1987.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- Whittle, David. Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books. Routledge, 2017.