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Montgomery was born at "Blackwood", Bois Lane, Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, fourth child and only son of Robert Ernest Montgomery (1878-1962) and Marion Blackwood, née Jarvie.
- David Whittle
- 2007
Aug 12, 2022 · Music composer Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), who as Edmund Crispin wrote eight glitteringly witty and amusing detective novels between 1944 and 1951 (as well as, with Geoffrey Bush, a fellow composer and the alleged son of detective novelist Christopher Bush, the classic short story “Who Killed Baker?”) is the subject of a now fifteen-year ...
- Curtis Evans
He has a wife and children, though they are only mentioned briefly in the novels. Edmund Crispin wrote nine novels in the Gervase Fen series, followed by an anthology of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, a name that the author derived from “Hamlet, Revenge” by Michael Innes.
Aug 28, 2021 · We open with the previously-unpublished ‘Child’s Play’ by Edmund Crispin, with Judith Carnegie as the newly-hired governess for the three Snyder children and their adopted second cousin. The Snyders — 15 year-old Camilla, thirteen year-old Tony, and 11 year-old Judith — each have about them some element of viciousness that may be ...
Nov 16, 2021 · Last month marked the centenary of the birth of Edmund Crispin, the nom de plume of Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), one of the most precociously gifted but unfairly neglected of all 20th century English crime fiction novelists.
His friends included Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Agatha Christie. He had always been a heavy drinker and, unfortunately, there was a long gap in his writing during a time when he was suffering from alcohol problems. Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of (Robert) Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978).
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Crispin also edited two Children's SF anthologies for schools, The Stars and Under: A Selection of Science Fiction (anth 1968) and Outwards from Earth: A Selection of Science Fiction (anth 1974), as well as Best Tales of Terror (anth 1962), Best Tales of Terror Two (anth 1965) and three further anthologies of detective and murder stories. [MJE/DRL]
