1947 Swan Song: A Detective Story

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. A detective novel and the fourth in the series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen. Fen becomes dragged into the complexities rivalries of an opera company. When one of the singers, widely loathed by the rest of the company, is found hanging dead in his dressing room Fen becomes the driving force behind the investigation. Written by Edmund Crispin, the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.