Edmund Crispin deals Treasury 3 vol book set,Mystery Books,Oxford Gervase Fen,Robert Bruce Montgomery,English crime writer,Swan Song,Carry On

This is a beautiful Book Set - The Edmund Crispin Treasury - 3 volume complete set. This set is like new. It is gift ready for that person who loves reading mysteries!! The only thing I could find wrong was a slight tear in the dust jacket on volume 3 (pic 10). The dust jackets are shiny. There is no writing or names in any of the books. They look as if they deals just sat on a shelf. They each have 3 stories. They are Book Club Edition.
Volume 1 - The Case of the Gilded Fly, Holy Disorders, The Moving Toyshop
Volume 2 - Swan Song, Love Lies Bleeding, Buried for Pleasure
Volume 3 - The Glimpses of the Moon, Frequent Hearses, The Long Divorce

From Wikipedia I quote:

"Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.

"Montgomery wrote detective novels and two collections of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin (taken from a character in Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge!).[6] Nine volumes appeared between 1944 and 1953, starting with The Case of The Gilded Fly. The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen,[7] who is a professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John's College. Fen is an eccentric, sometimes absent-minded, character reportedly based on his tutor, the Oxford professor W. G. Moore (1905-1978).[8] The whodunit novels have complex plots and fantastic, somewhat unbelievable solutions, including examples of the locked room mystery. They are written in a humorous, literary and sometimes farcical style. They are also among the few mystery novels to break the fourth wall occasionally and speak directly to the audience. Perhaps the best example is from The Moving Toyshop, during a chase sequence – "Let's go left", Cadogan suggested. "After all, Gollancz is publishing this book."[9]

All of the novels contain frequent references to English literature, poetry, and (in particular) music. Frequent Hearses and Swan Song have a specifically musical backdrop. Swan Song (1947) explores the world of opera during rehearsals for a production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, while Frequent Hearses is set in a film studio, and includes among the characters Napier, a composer of film music. By 1950, when Frequent Hearses was published, Montgomery was already busy elsewhere, also establishing himself as a composer of film music.

Crispin is considered by many to be one of the last great exponents of the classic crime mystery.[10]"

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