Book description
Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase
Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around
with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving
Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the
world, and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul
of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously
rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century?
Tracking down the answer pleases Fen immensely - only the reader
will have a better time.
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. He also composed the music for many
of the
Carry On
fims.
