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Mar 23, 2016 if youve listened to the latest episode of tea or books. The moving toyshop gervase fen, book 3 by edmund crispin. One of the second generation of 20th century british masters and mistressesof the detective story, edmund crispin bruce montgomery created gervase fen, oxford professor, as his sherlock holmes. He is seen to be suggesting titles for books written by edmund crispin in funny discussions with his friend cadogan one of which is murder stalks the university. Its always nice to read something thats been on my shelves for a while, and the note inside the front tells me that i bought it in edinburgh on 23 september 2009.
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