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Buried for Pleasure de Edmund Crispin
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Buried for Pleasure (original: 1948; edição: 1980)

de Edmund Crispin (Autor)

Séries: Gervase Fen (6)

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A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who "combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (The New York Times).In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance, the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful, but Fen soon discovers that appearances can be deceiving: someone in the village has discovered a dark secret and is using it for blackmail. Anyone who comes close to uncovering the blackmailer's identity is swiftly dispatched.As the joys of politics wear off, Fen sets his mind to the mystery--but finds himself caught up in a tangled tale of eccentric psychiatrists, escaped lunatics, beautiful women, and lost heirs . . ."His books are full of high spirits and excellent jokes, with constant literary allusions . . . But at times the mood turns darker, and Crispin is capable of passages of both genuine suspense and ingenious deduction." --The Daily Telegraph"One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century." --Boston Globe… (mais)
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Título:Buried for Pleasure
Autores:Edmund Crispin (Autor)
Informação:Harpercollins (1980)
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Another great Fen book. This one not so much for the mystery (eh... not that great) but for the setting and characters. Small town England (Sanford on Morvel?) with the homey inn, the escaped lunatic, daffy (haunted) clergyman and a local rich socialist who wants to do away with fancy formality. Fen runs for (and wins) a seat to parliament allowing for political jibes and odd speeches. Pleasant Jane Persimmons is the target of a murder attempt (fortunately saved and reunited with her long lost family).
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
Gervase Fen, Oxford professor and sleuth, here “standing” (U.S.,running) for Parliament in towns leaning Conservative but equally divided with Labour. His race turns in interesting and odd results, when we learn about the Chiltern Hundreds and impossibility of resigning once elected. Fen’s speeches grow almost crazed, part of the theme, since in this novel young Lord Sanford gives his great house to the government, who turned Sanford Hall to an insane asylum. One escaped inmate, an “exhibitor” (US, indecent exposure) may be the third craziest character here, after the Fish pub owner Mr Beaver and others. Even the village rector credits poltergeists.

Twice our one daily visit to a pub, though often merely mineral water for those driving cars. Scotland Yard gets involved after the second murder, a smaller man Humbleby who after the striking of the church clock quotes “Time’s hurrying chariot…unhappily driving toward something less agreeable than a coy mistress”(106). This from Andrew Marvell’s most famous poem; Marvell I focused my doctoral dissertation on, This Critical Age, about poetry criticism in verse before Dryden turned it to prose. (My book is in four German and American universities.)

Attempts at murder range from knives to hypodermic to a box of chocolates. Continuing
throughout are amusing passages, like “The Civil Service is a body whose mistakes are made so thoroughly and definitively the they can only be rectified by a procedure equally searching and elaborate”(122). Profound comparison of a politician to “an actor whose miming is so plausible that the emotions he presents come to be regarded as real and not artificial” (142, see below). The rector of the local church feels his charwoman “greatly overestimates my importance in the eyes of the Devil, wh no doubt has better uses of his courtesans than to assign them so regularly to me”(156).

Crispin’s conclusion (1949) anticipates our US president Trumpster. Fen’s last speech says political apathy is better than zealotry, though zealots often win. Their whole motive power of political obsession derives from “the monosyllable hate…Endemic envy and hatred, masquerading as a public-spirited interest in politics…are producing [terrible effects] in this country”(188, 190).

*pseudonym for Robert B Montgomery, composer (including for film). ( )
  AlanWPowers | Apr 19, 2020 |
Professor Gervase Fen takes up politics and stands as an Independent candidate in the Sanford Angelorum by-election. Then he meets a policeman friend investigating a case of blackmail and poisoning undercover. And then the friend himself is murdered. Of course, for Fen, investigating murder is much more fun than politics.

The mystery is as entertaining as usual and the political satire is still spot on in these days of Brexit and the US Presidential elections. ( )
  Robertgreaves | Aug 5, 2016 |
I always enjoy the antics of Gervase Fen and this story has plenty of antics, any more would be too many. Fen Is staying at an inn named Fish which has no fishing or peace and quiet or even much else to recommend it. He has decided to run for parliament but in the end finds solving murders more to his liking. I enjoyed the complete reading experience because this book is a lovely quality trade paperback with high grade paper. A keeper. ( )
  Condorena | Apr 2, 2013 |
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Buried on Monday, buried for health;
Buried on Tuesday, buried for wealth;
Buried on Wednesday, buried for fun;
Buried on Thursday, buried at one;
Buried on Friday, buried for leisure;
Buried on Saturday, buried for pleasure;
Buried on Sunday after eleven,
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A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who "combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity" (The New York Times).In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance, the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful, but Fen soon discovers that appearances can be deceiving: someone in the village has discovered a dark secret and is using it for blackmail. Anyone who comes close to uncovering the blackmailer's identity is swiftly dispatched.As the joys of politics wear off, Fen sets his mind to the mystery--but finds himself caught up in a tangled tale of eccentric psychiatrists, escaped lunatics, beautiful women, and lost heirs . . ."His books are full of high spirits and excellent jokes, with constant literary allusions . . . But at times the mood turns darker, and Crispin is capable of passages of both genuine suspense and ingenious deduction." --The Daily Telegraph"One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century." --Boston Globe

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