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The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)

December 07, 2023

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 Glimpses of the Moon
First Edition
AuthorEdmund Crispin
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGervase Fen
GenreDetective
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
1977
Media typePrint
Preceded byBeware of the Trains  
Followed byFen Country 

The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is set in the village of Aller in rural Devon.

References edit

  1. ^ Bargainnier p.60
  2. ^ Whittle p.204
  3. ^ Reilly p.394-95

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.


 

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December 07, 2023
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