Book description
Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and Professor
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.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, an English
crime writer and composer. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford,
in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having for two years been its
organist and choirmaster. From 1943 to 1945 he taught at Shrewsbury
School and in 1944 published the first of nine Gervase Fen novels,
The Case of the Gilded Fly
. He became a well respected reviewer of crime, writing for the
Sunday Times
from 1967 until his death in 1978.
