On 30 Jul 96 Jan Murphy said this about that to Helen Fleischer:
 HF>> Ran out of Tey for sure, not to mention Crispin and Allingham.
 JM> For some reason, I still haven't gotten into Crispin and Allingham.
 
     Jan did you just not care for Crispin, or are you having trouble 
finding them?  AFAIK, just about everything of his is O/P (AGAIN!).  A 
couple of years back, I scored a HB of THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON (his final 
one, his last book before his death and written after a twenty-some year 
hiatus), and found a BCE of SUDDEN VENGEANCE (aka FREQUENT HEARSES).  
Everything else I have is in mass-markets--either Penguin (which has about 
half his list) or Avon (which had--past tense--the other half).  He's one 
of the authors who has remained on my "GOTTA have it" list, although I 
haven't pursued him too hotly for lack of house room to give to more 
books, until we can move again. 
 
     For those who haven't ever read Edmund Crispin's (the pen name for 
the composer Bruce Montgomery) mysteries, they involve Gervase Fen, the 
Oxford Professor of English Literature (and at Oxford, being a "Professor" 
is more like being a dean in US university--it's a lot bigger deal and 
there's a lot fewer of them).  Crispin's well-educated and stylish, and 
his style reminds me of what might have happened if Dorothy Sayers had met 
Monty Python--at least, his novels do.  His short stories, OTOH, aren't a 
bit funny. 
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