Love Lies Bleeding

From a British mystery author known as the master of the whodunnit an amateur detective delights in solving murders at an English boys school. Prof. Gervase Fen of Oxford University is honored to award the prizes at the Speech Day ceremonies at Castrevenford High School. As it turns out the headmasters selection of the part-time sleuth as a presenter is most fortuitous indeed. For the night before the big event two of the schools staff members are murdered... Of course Fen is happy to do some investigating if only to get more fodder for the crime novel hes writing. Between the kidnapping the student romances and the accidental discovery of a long-lost Shakespearian manuscript the eccentric Oxford don certainly gets some food for thought. But thats all in a days work for an amateur detective with a penchant for literary allusions and an uncanny knack for solving the unsolvable. Praise for the mysteries of Edmund Crispin A marvellous comic sense. P.D. James New York Timesbestselling author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series Master of fast-paced tongue-in-cheek mystery novels a blend of John Dickson Carr Michael Innes M.R. James and the Marx Brothers. Anthony Boucher author of the Fergus OBreen series An absolute must for devotees of cultivated crime fiction. Kirkus Reviews One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century. The Boston Globe Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity. Philip Larkin poet and author of A Girl in Winter One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story. The Times (London)