Holy Disorders - Hardcover

Crispin, Edmund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802754112 ISBN 13: 9780802754110

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1979

Synopsis

When a cathedral organist is found murdered at his keyboard, the inimitable Gervase Fen draws on his uncanny investigative instincts to find a valuable clue in the diary of a salacious eighteenth-century bishop said to haunt the holy grounds

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Thorne trained at RADA and played several seasons with the Old Vic Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London. He has worked extensively in radio, with over two thousand broadcasts for the BBC, including Uncle Mort in the Radio 4 comedy series and the part of Treebeard in "The Lord of the Rings". His television work includes "EastEnders", "Boys from the Bush", "Death of an Expert Witness", and "David Copperfield".

From AudioFile:

What fun! The highlights of this book include academic and religious eccentrics, a character named Henry Fielding (who must field many questions about his famous name), and a marriage proposal beside a radish garden. Narrator Stephen Thorne enhances this delightful mystery set in England during WWII. Thorne expertly presents characters, both aristocrats and servants; quaint accents; and puns and wordplay. His delivery of the unflattering descriptions of characters is hilarious. Gervase Fen is called upon to solve the murder of a church organist who had not an enemy in the world. Was it spies? Or could it have been the witches who have been active in the village since the seventeenth century? A grand choice for those who enjoy the Golden Age of British detective fiction. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0802754112
• ISBN 13: 9780802754110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254