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Portrait image of Edmund Crispin Photo: Stuart Black / Hulton Archive via Getty Images (1953)

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Crispin, Edmund

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of detective stories born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and St. John’s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages in 1943. While in Oxford he befriended Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and he tra...

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William Meredith

Gender: Male

A conscientious murder investigator who solves cases in various parts of England in a suite of detective stories by John Bude (pseudonym for Ernest Elmore). William Meredith is a patient gentleman, open for tips about possible alternative solutions; he listens carefully to what colleagues – ranging from village constables to chief constables – say. He is of normal build, with an everyday but sym...

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