2021/056: Buried for Pleasure -- Edmund Crispin

2021/056: Buried for Pleasure -- Edmund Crispin

An observer – of that dispassionate sort which novelists summon to their assistance when direct description begins to pall – would have attributed her vehemence, on this uncommonly hot day, to a pride in workmanship. But such an observer, like the majority of his spectral and deluded kind, would have been seriously mistaken. [p.172]

Oxford Don Gervase Fen, recently emerged from editing a definitive edition of Langland, is in need of a change: his solution to this is to stand for Parliament in the small town of Sanford Angelorum.( no spoilers )