Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding
Edmund Crispin

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.Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders.While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript. By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre.

EDMUND CRISPIN

Love Lies Bleeding

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Source ISBN: 9780008124151

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Version: 2017-10-26

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Contents

Cover (#u830c3c4a-2f6d-531f-ac8d-d8bcef83036d)

Title Page (#u7c0ecdfa-4f2e-5460-9e21-3e734e7f4af5)

Copyright (#u90e6d10e-b320-579e-8272-0a8f7857ef56)

Dedication (#u98dc31ce-f4e8-5ae4-842c-e8cdc3da08c6)

Chapter 1: Lasciva Puella (#u301107e8-8946-540a-a4d6-1d0346bd7629)

Chapter 2: Find out Moonshine (#u54852e5f-689c-5ddb-8946-28e825570639)

Chapter 3: Thieves Break in and Steal (#u531b0ccd-4417-55a9-b197-bd05e1368f29)

Chapter 4: Holocaust (#u5e47b5a0-fc9f-5678-bb01-9e04665a6df8)

Chapter 5: Bloody-Man’s-Finger (#uf22e7e33-b72e-5023-8f47-0b07983a3094)

Chapter 6: Love Lies Bleeding (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7: Saturnalia (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8: The Death of a Witch (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9: Love’s Labour’s Won (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Meditations Among the Tombs (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Reasoning but to Err (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: A Green Thought in a Green Shade (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: A Sennet: Enter Second Murderer (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: Exit, Pursued by a Bear (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Rout (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Eclipse (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: Peace Indivisible (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also in this series (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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Lasciva Puella (#u103e25fa-4098-539b-b1cf-061498f66975)

The headmaster sighed. It was, he recognized, a plaintive and unmanly noise, but for the moment he was quite unable to suppress it. He apologized.