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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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Peter Shaw

Gender: Male

A policeman’s son and newly appointed detective who discovers that his partner on his first case in Norfolk is his father’s old companion, the hard-skinned and chain-smoking veteran George Valentine. The pair often have different views, but they respect each other. Peter Shaw is almost 190 cm tall, and has one eye after an accident. He is married to the beautiful lawyer Lena from Jamaica, so aut...

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