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Gervase Fen
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Gervase Fen, professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, is the protagonist of a series of comic detective novels, written by Edmund Crispin (a pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery). | |
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Barsetshire | |
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Barsetshire: The setting of Buried for Pleasure: a cluster of rural villages. | |
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Stereotype Flip | |
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Stereotype Flip: In Buried for Pleasure, the Conservative and Labour candidates are deliberately chosen against their parties' usual stereotypes — the Conservative candidate is a labourer who's been to night classes, and the Labour candidate a wealthy industrialist. | |
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Music to Invade Poland to | |
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Music to Invade Poland to: invokedDiscussed by the characters in Swan Song, since it's set at the staging of a Wagner opera immediately after the Second World War. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Fen knows he's in a novel, and doesn't hesitate to say so. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: In the short story "The Little Room" it's not clear if the victim was murdered or if she cut her own throat from despair after being locked up by the story's villain. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In Holy Disorders, Fen's hobby of collecting insects turns out to be crucial at the climax. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: The Gilded Fly is a reference to King Lear. The Long Divorce is part of a line from Henry VIII. The Moving Toyshop and Frequent Hearses are both quotations from Alexander Pope. | |
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The Scrappy | |
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The Scrappy: invokedIn The Moving Toyshop, Fen and one of his sidekicks decide to pass the time by naming fictional characters they detest, whom the author intended as sympathetic. They come up with Beatrice and Benedick, Lady Chatterley and "that gamekeeper fellow", Britomart, "almost everyone in Dostoevsky", "those vulgar little man-hunting minxes in Pride and Prejudice", and the Leech-Gatherer. At which point, they are interrupted by an outraged Jane Austen fanboy... who just happens to give them the next clue they need. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: In Holy Disorders the city of Tolnbridge has a history of witch-burning. Various characters take the trouble to point how unusual this was, when the normal punishment was hanging. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: The titular victim in "The Drowning of Edgar Foley" was a notorious wife-beater, which led to his death. | |
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Justice by Other Legal Means | |
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Justice by Other Legal Means: Deconstructed in "The Little Room", in which the villain, who probably murdered a young woman and at the very least falsely imprisoned her, cannot be charged with either crime due to lack of evidence. The police can and do charge her with concealing a body to prevent an inquest, but this carries a maximum sentence of about a week in jail so she pretty much gets away with it anyway. | |
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My Car Hates Me | |
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My Car Hates Me: Fen's car, Lily Christine III, has a habit of breaking down at the most inconvenient moments for Fen (such as when he has to get somewhere as quickly as possible to prevent a murder). | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Fen's wife Dolly appears only in the first book. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: One character in Holy Disorders is called Henry Fielding; everyone who meets him seems compelled to ask if he's the author of Tom Jones. | |
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Twisted Eucharist | |
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Twisted Eucharist: In Holy Disorders the protagonists attend a Black Mass in disguise, in the hope of picking up clues. | |
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Glowing Gem | |
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Glowing Gem: In the short story "The Mischief Done", the solution to the mystery relies on the "fact" that diamonds glow in the dark after lengthy exposure to bright light. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: Holy Disorders has one to Montague Rhodes James: a diary left by a corrupt bishop, who seduced a 17-year old member of his congregation and had her burned as a witch to cover up the affair, only for her ghost to take revenge on him. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: A few of the short stories end with the villain getting away, such as "The Little Room", "The Golden Mean" and likely the blackmailer in "The Drowning of Edgar Foley". | |
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Character Filibuster | |
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Character Filibuster: In Buried for Pleasure, Fen is standing as an independent candidate in a local by-election. By the time of his final speech, he's so disgusted with politics that his speech (transcribed at full length) is a denunciation of the whole notion of politics and a plea for the traditional British spirit of apathy. | |
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Description in the Mirror | |
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Description in the Mirror: Parodied in Glimpses of the Moon: | |
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Doom It Yourself | |
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Doom It Yourself: In Buried for Pleasure, the landlord of the Fish Inn attempts to carry out renovation works himself, building to a disaster that everyone's been predicting through the book. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In The Long Divorce, Fen adopts the pseudonym Datchery to make a covert investigation. The local police inspector privately complains that anyone familiar with Dickens will recognise the allusion and realise what he's doing. In Buried for Pleasure, two rural characters admit they've been mollocking. In Swan Song, a journalist asking Fen for an interview says she's also hoping to interview Sir Henry Merrivale, Mrs Bradley and Albert Campion. In Holy Disorders, Fen is offended at the idea of calling in Inspector Appleby when he, Fen, is already on the spot. Though he acknowledges Appleby is "very good". There are also nods to real inhabitants of Oxford at the time; in The Moving Toyshop Fen mentions an essay by Philip Larkin, and in Swan Song, Fen points out C. S. Lewis as he passes. | |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday | |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The premise of The Moving Toyshop. | |
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Decided by One Vote | |
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Decided by One Vote: The by-election in Buried for Pleasure has the winner come out one vote ahead of his two rivals, who are tied on the same total. Then, when the winner is disqualified for breaking spending limits, the returning officer's casting vote resolves the tie. | |
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Shakespeare in Fiction | |
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Shakespeare in Fiction: The McGuffin in Love Lies Bleeding is a manuscript of the lost Shakespeare play Love's Labours Won. | |
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The Charmer | |
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The Charmer: In The Moving Toyshop Hoskins can charm any woman by offering her chocolates and telling her not to be alarmed. | |
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts | |
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: The method in Swan Song to make it appear that the victim had hanged himself. | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: In Swan Song, as everyone arrives at The Summation, Elizabeth is asking "But I thought Charles Shorthouse lived with some awful woman called Beatrix Thorn?" — only for Fen to reply "Here is Miss Thorn. In the flesh." | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Fen claims he is a careful driver who never takes unnecessary risks. This is very far from being the case. | |
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Detective Mole | |
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Detective Mole: In Buried for Pleasure, the murderer is the local police superintendent. | |
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Crisis of Faith | |
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Crisis of Faith: Played with in Holy Disorders — the character who loses faith in his profession isn't a priest, but a psychoanalyst. | |
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Grail in the Garbage | |
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Grail in the Garbage: In Love Lies Bleeding, a collection of priceless manuscripts (for which people would commit murder) is found by a plumber fitting a new stove. Neither he nor the householder recognise their significance. | |
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Description in the Mirror / int_7698a40b | |
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Detective Mole / int_7698a40b | |
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The Charmer / int_7698a40b |
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