Swan Song

De: Edmund Crispin

Narrado por: Paul Panting

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.

©1947 Edmund Crispin (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers

Entertaining

As usual Crispin puts a very entertaining story together. This starts a little slowly and the two leading characters are not very attractive or interesting but this is laying a red herring before the mystery begins. The plot then gets going and the mystery and its resolution are admirably well thought out and fun thru to the end. Not as brilliant as Glimpses of the Moon or some others in the series but still of a very high standard.