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Buried For Pleasure (1948)

by Edmund Crispin(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0330373838 (ISBN13: 9780330373838)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Pan

series

Gervase Fen

review 1: Originally published in the 1940's the Gervase Fen mysteries are one of those rights of passage for crime lovers. Or at least they were in my house as I was growing up. Vintage Books have done us all an enormous favour in turning their attention back to some of the classic books - and this set from Edmund Crispin is a real job to behold. Now I have read a lot of these books before, but the chance to reread them, without having to rely on falling on fragile old copies in second-hand bookshops is a joy.And these are still very good crime stories. Slightly eccentric in that vaguely bats sort of what-ho English style, they are built around a good solid foundation of a problem and a solution, no matter how odd the methodology might seem these days.They are ultimately extrem... moreely enjoyable books - and Gervase Fen is a wonderfully eccentric, but extremely alert British investigating sort of chap - and I cannot recommend them highly enough - either as a reread or as a new experience if you're new to these classic English crime books.
review 2: A Gervase Fen mystery. I was introduced to Crispin in P.D. James’ TALKING ABOUT DETECTIVE FICTION: “Gervase Fen is a true original, a ruddy-faced man with unruly hair, much given to witticisms and, appropriately enough, quotations from the classics, who romps through his cases with infectious joie de vivre in books which are genuinely funny.” This book live up to James’ billing. Fen is staying at the Fish Inn in Sanford Anglelorum while he is campaigning in the local elections as an Independent when he realizes that one of the other guests is a police detective using an assumed identity. Fen, naturally, is drawn into his case. Colourful local characters and some outright farce (all of which put me in mind of the movie HOT FUZZ). Lots of fun. I will seek out other titles. (Some are available in paperback on amazon.ca)(The edition that I read was a 1971 hardcover of the original published in 1948 by Victor Gollancz.) less

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