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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirky best.

The peaceful and prosperous village of Cotten Abbas has a very unpleasant problem.

Long inhabited by a collection of proudly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and very well to do€¦ and not everyone is happy about it.

New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry and they don€t seem likely to stop.

Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved€¦


REVIEWS

"I very much enjoy Edmund Crispin, who's extremely frivolous, with a marvellous comic sense" - P.D. James

"A master of the whodunnit€¦ he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" - New York Times

"Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity" - Philip Larkin