By Edmund Crispin

Gervase Fen, Oxford don, useless and whimsical novice detective, including the self-effacing Detective Inspector Humbleby, remedy the most strange situations within the annals of crime.

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What it amounts to, then,” said Wakefield, toward what they hoped was the close of what they hoped was his peroration; “is that philosophy deals not so much with the answers to questions about Man and the Universe as with the problem of what questions may properly be asked. Improper questions”—here a little man named Fielding, whom no one knew very well, choked suddenly over his port and had to be led out—“improper questions can only confuse the issue. ” Fen roused himself. “Improper questions,” he said reflectively.

And I ought to warn you in advance that it’s a case in which the mode of telling is important—as important, probably, as the thing told… “At the time of his death Baker was about forty-five, a self-important little man with very black, heavily brilliantined hair, an incipient paunch, dandified clothes, and a twisted bruiser’s nose which was the consequence not of pugnacity but of a fall from a bicycle in youth. He was not, one gathers, at all a pleasing personality, and he had crowned his dislikable qualities by marrying, and subsequently bullying, a wife very much younger and more attractive than himself.

Naturally, one thinks of Androcles,” said the reverend mother. ” She paused, then added; ‘This, you know, is the convent’s only relic. ’ She stooped to replace it in the sacristy cupboard; and Fen, while he waited, thought of frail old Sister St. ” He thought, too, of the eleven-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and of her father, who had obstinately refused to divulge to the police the medium through which the ransom was to be paid, for fear that in trying to catch the kidnapper they would blunder and bring about the death of his only child.

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