As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.
When a decapitated head is seen floating down the river in the Devon village of Aller, the rural calm is shattered. Soon the corpses are multiplying, and the entire community is involved in the hunt for the murderer.
Whilst many chase false trails, it is left to Gervase Fen, Oxford don and amateur criminologist, to uncover the sordid truth
Edmund Crispin's The Glimpses of the Moon is a top-notch cosy mystery set in the traditional and historical village of Aller. The latest in a series of thrillers, it follows the investigation of a series of gruesome crimes that shatter the rural calm.
For fans of Margery Allingham (The Crime At Black Dudley), Anthony Horowitz (Nightshade Revenge), Dorothy L. Sayers (Whose Body?), Richard Coles (A Death in the Parish), and Edward Marston (Murder in Transit).