The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)
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. ReferencesBibliography
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