{"product_id":"fen-country-9780008530631","title":"Fen Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREORDER — Expected release: 01 December 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e This book is not yet available. Dispatch is subject to supplier availability and publication-date changes.\u003c\/p\u003eDandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don\/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories by one of the great masters of detective fiction.\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote nine detective novels and forty two short stories, combining farcical situations with literary references and sharply observed characterisation. His professional film scores included the well-known scores for the Carry On series. Montgomery graduated from St. John’s College, Oxford in 1943 and was part of a famous literary circle including Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he was the regular crime-fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e from 1967 and contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited science-fiction anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to live out a hermetic existence in Totnes in Devonshire until his death in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edmund Crispin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300472778813,"sku":"9780008530631","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000_8089e315-f071-4294-afa0-8b2d530ed610.jpg?v=1793697660","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/fen-country-9780008530631","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}