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Frequent Hearses (The Gervase Fen Mysteries)
Frequent Hearses - The Gervase Fen Mysteries Author:Edmund Crispin Stars Starlets Floozies and factotums to the film world Gervase Fen suspects them all Gervase Fen is more at home in his ivory tower than in a London film studio but Murder can take place anywhere and aspiring actress Gloria Scott s suicide definitely looks like murder Oxford don Gervase Fen is at the film studios to advise about a film biograph... more »y of Alexander Pope Gloria Scott appears to have had little reason for wanting to kill herself by jumping off Waterloo bridge but someone has taken great pains to hide Gloria s real identity and Gervase Fen s detective nose begins to twitch When a lecherous cameraman is poisonded before his very eyes Fen finds himself consulting on a far more familiar matter murder Stars Starlets Floozies and factotums to the film world Gervase Fen suspects them all The young actress Gloria Scott drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge The news sends shock waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen Oxford Don and amateur criminologist just so happens to be working With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places Young Ms Scott s apartment has been searched and all signs of her real identity have been removed and what s more minutes before Humbleby interrogates her co workers one of them a lecherous cameraman is poisoned Equal parts compelling witty and ingenuous this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction First published in 1950 Frequent Hearses was Edmund Crispin s seventh novel« less