{"product_id":"swan-song-9781504091961","title":"Swan Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is \"a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's \u003ci\u003eDie Meistersinger\u003c\/i\u003e, its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse, but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story . . . elegant, literate, and funny.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Crispin's] books are fast, fun and smart, their hero charming, frivolous, brilliant and badly behaved.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Media Mystery \u0026amp; Thri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781504091961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Edmund Crispin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413572874421,"sku":"9781504091961","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ac0db3ff-d5bb-47d5-be91-56b205f8d9a9.jpg?v=1720537722","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/swan-song-9781504091961","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}