69808X1 Reprint Edition. Penguin Books, Harmondworth: 1955. 191 pages. Softcover. Good condition. The background for this story is an Operatic Company playing Die Meistersinger in Oxford. The trouble began with the marriage of a young operatic and writer and crime - for out of the covetousness, pride, lust, and anger that this caused in the heart of one man came forth the deeds that lead to death. To the rescue (for the crime takes place in Oxford charges Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature. Pompous, self willed, insouciant, he solves the mystery - despite the deliberate hindering of his colleague Wilkes. $38.95USD
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