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Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English author of Gervase Fen novels and a film music composer. He was a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, and wrote humorous and literary mysteries with musical and literary references.
Edmund Crispin wrote nine novels in the Gervase Fen series, followed by an anthology of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, a name that the author derived from “Hamlet, Revenge” by Michael Innes.
The Case of the Gilded Fly is a golden age English mystery novel by Edmund Crispin, the first of a series of nine featuring the detecting don, Gervase Fen. Edmund Crispin is a pseudonym for Bruce Montgomery, who apparently based his eccentric and absent-minded amateur detective on his tutor Professor W. G. Moore.
Dive deep into Robert Bruce Montgomery's Edmund Crispin with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
A collection of 11 books featuring Gervase Fen, a professor of English and a part-time detective in Oxford, England. The series spans from 1944 to 1979 and includes mysteries, humor, and music.
Essays and criticism on Robert Bruce Montgomery's Edmund Crispin - Critical Essays.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of (Robert) Bruce Montgomery. His first crime novel and musical composition were both accepted for publication while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford. After a brief spell of teaching, he became a full-time writer and composer (particularly of film music.
