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Swan Song (Gervase Fen, #4)

Edmund Crispin

Start date: September 15, 2022

Finish date: October 8, 2022

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Apr 19, 2023 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Another entertaining mystery with the eccentric Professor Fen. An opera production in Oxford and two murders. A very original solution in who killed the loathsome Edwin Shorthouse. No one liked him including his brother and colleagues.

Lots of potential motives set against the background of rehearsals for an opera and the artistic temperament. However, the face cream was the clue but with a great twist.

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Sep 20, 2022 Jill rated it really liked it

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This book is centred around an opera house, and the cast of the opera which is rehearsing for it’s first showing. Here we meet the victim of a murder, and like most Golden Age crimes, he happens to be a lecherous drunk who nobody likes. He assorts a young girl, but is stopped by another woman who fortunately enters the room. Quite soon after he is found hanged in his dressing room, not only having taken too much gin, but also drugged by that gin. The problem here being was it actually suicide or ...more

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