The complete collection of published short stories of Edmund Crispin, together in one volume for the first time.

Forty-six detective stories by the great Edmund Crispin, most of them featuring his Oxford don, Gervase Fen, and Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard, and the cases turn upon a fine assortment of clues – dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat and a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi and a truly poisonous letter ... there seems no limit to the intricacy of Edmund Crispin’s invention or the sparkle of his wit.