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Holy Disorders is the second Gervase Fen novel, following on from The Case of the Gilded Fly and published in 1945. This is very much Britain in Wartime, although some parts of normal life go on as usual - including the cathedral services at Tolnbridge, where Fen is on holiday from his job as Professor of English at Oxford. When the current organist at the cathedral is attacked, Fen invites Geoffrey Vintner, composer and organist, to take over. Vintner, a mild mannered bachelor, also finds himse
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This is my favorite of the Crispin novels. He is an outstanding writer and deserves to be better known than he is.
The second Gervase Fen book and the second book of Crispin's that I've read. I've enjoyed them both. Gervase is on some sort of scientific trip to Tolnbridge, for some kind of investigation or experimentation on insects there. He sends an emergency message for help to his friend Geoffrey - he needs a butterfly net. Between the time that Geoffrey goes to the department store and arrives in Tolnbridge he has been attacked several times and meets a new friend, Fielding, who handily stepped in to de
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I wasn't keen on the first book in this series The Case of the Gilded Fly but was hoping that the subsequent book, would be more to my liking. This started off well, and looked like it might be a fun read, but once Fen appeared, to me it just wasn't fun any longer. I don't like the way Vintner sees women (Either as money-diggers or sluts) but did accept that he felt like that in the first book. But Fen in this really annoyed me. He is forever telling people that he knows what is going on, but ne
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I love the crisp, sometimes witty descriptions - "Coffee was in the drawing room. There rose to meet them as they came in, Garbin and Spitshuker still engaged in surreptitious altercation, a little old man of phenomenal thinness, with a sharp nose, small beady eyes which never for more than a moment held your own, and a crown of sparse and wispy white hair - Sir John Dallow, Chancellor of the Cathedral. In speech he alternatively gabbled and drawled. His mannerisms were at once like and unlike S
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not such good fun as "the moving toyshop." moved a bit slowly, but i do like fen and a large portion of it took place on a train, which i'm keen on.
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