Love Lies Bleeding (novel)
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 American first edition | |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz Lippincott (US) |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Swan Song |
| Followed by | Buried for Pleasure |
Love Lies Bleeding is a detective novel by Edmund Crispin, first published in 1948. Set in the post-war period in and around a public school in the vicinity of Stratford-upon-Avon, it is about the accidental discovery of old manuscripts which contain Shakespeare's long-lost play, Love's Labour's Won, and the subsequent hunt for those manuscripts, in the course of which several people are murdered. Collaborating with the local police, Oxford don Gervase Fen, a professor of English who happens to be the guest of honour at the school's Speech Day, can solve the case at the same weekend.
References[edit]
- Barry Forshaw: The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (London, 2007) 24f., where Love Lies Bleeding is mentioned as a prime example of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction ("generally felt to be a key outing for the detective [...] handled in prose of quiet and unspectacular skill, with a brilliantly created cloistered world at its centre").
Bibliography[edit]
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- Whittle, David. Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books. Routledge, 2017.
External links[edit]
- Love Lies Bleeding at the Golden Age of Detection Wiki
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