About: The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)

The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards on publication it was the first novel in the series to be released since in 1951. The author died the following year and in 1979 a final work Fen Country, a collection of short stories featuring the detective, was publish posthumously. The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is set in the village of Aller in rural Devon.