The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)
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| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Beware of the Trains |
| Followed by | Fen Country |
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
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.