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BURIED FOR PLEASURE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7- 191 [192: Blank], cloth. First edition. The sixth Gervase Fen novel. Fen decides to stand for election to Pariliament, murder occurs. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-158 [159] [160: blank], original green cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. The first Gervase Fen novel. Set in and around Oxford, England. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 532.
FREQUENT HEARSES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The seventh Gervase Fen novel. Murder at a film studio. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. The ninth, and last, Gervase Fen novel. Set in the Devon countryside. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 172.
HOLY DISORDERS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-175 [176: blank], cloth. First edition. The second Gervase Fen novel. Murder in a small English town, perhaps involving a coven of witches or German spies. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE LONG DIVORCE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The eighth Gervase Fen novel. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE MOVING TOYSHOP.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-151 [152: blank], cloth. First edition. The third Gervase Fen novel. "The climatic scene, revolving around a chase to catch the criminal, is so powerful, so moving, that Alfred Hitchcock borrowed it to use as the windup in his film Stranger on a Train." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 173. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 533.