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From the blog Crime Fiction Lover: "Between 1944 and 1977, Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote a string of novels under the name Edmund Crispin. Today he is considered to be one of the underappreciated masters of the Golden Age of crime fiction. His novels featuring eccentric Oxford professor Gervase Fen were always witty and literate, and Frequent Hearses is one of the picks of the bunch. In this, the seventh in the series, Fen visits a film studio to advise on the production of a biopic of poet Alexander Pope. It may be difficult to conceive of a Pope biopic being produced in 1950s London, but it…
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15 editions- Paperback · English · 1987Frequent Hearses (Classic Crime)Penguin (Non-Classics) · 224 pages · 9780140093551
- Other · English · 2023HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008530525
- Other · English · 2023HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008530518
- Other · English · 2017Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 232 pages · 9781448216895
- Other · English · 2013Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 232 pages · 9781448213474
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781448206889
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