The creator of amateur sleuth Gervase Fen loved to make fun of detective fiction.

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Mentioned in this episode:

— The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr

— Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books by David Whittle

— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

— Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin

— The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin

— The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

— Swan Song by Edmund Crispin

— Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin

— Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin

— Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin

— Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes

— The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin

— "We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped In For A Minute" by Edmund Crispin

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