As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirky best.
The peaceful and prosperous village of Cotten Abbas has a very unpleasant problem.
Long inhabited by a collection of proudly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and very well to do... and not everyone is happy about it.
New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry and they don't seem likely to stop.
Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved...
REVIEWS
"I very much enjoy Edmund Crispin, who's extremely frivolous, with a marvellous comic sense" - P.D. James
"A master of the whodunnit... he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" - New York Times
"Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity" - Philip Larkin