1977 mystery novel by Edmund Crispin
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 published posthumously.[3]
The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is set in the village of Aller in rural Devon.
References
- ^ Bargainnier p.60
- ^ Whittle p.204
- ^ Reilly p.394-95
Bibliography
- 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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