Swan Song: The intriguing, suspenseful, gripping, dark, humorous and cosy cozy classic detective fiction novel adored by Golden Age crime and modern mystery fans alike (A Gervase Fen Mystery)

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first post-war production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room? In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford don and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love. Edmund Crispin's Swan Song is a top-rated cosy mystery that harks back to the traditional detective stories of yesteryears. Set in the charming locale of Oxford, it's a tale that will keep you hooked from start to finish. For fans of Josephine Tey (The Man In The Queue), Dorothy L. Sayers (THE NINE TAILORS), Margery Allingham (Police at the Funeral), Ethel Lina White (The Lady Vanishes), and Jill Paton Walsh (A Presumption of Death).