The long divorce (New edition)

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. Long inhabited by a collection of profoundly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and well to do arriving in the village of Cotten Abbas … and not everyone is happy about it.

New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry. Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon finds more than he bargained for.

A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this mystery unsolved…