Edmund Crispin, the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), was a British writer, literary critic and composer. Born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, he studied at Oxford, where he developed a great love for classical literature and music, passions that he would intertwine in his works. He is famous for his detective novels with a bright and ironic tone, featuring the eccentric English literature professor Gervase Fen as the protagonist. He was also a film score composer, composing music for several successful comedies of the Fifties and Sixties. Edmund Crispin is today considered one of the masters of mid-twentieth century British detective fiction, capable of innovating the genre with intelligence, humor and a deep literary culture
