a character created by Edmund Crispin
Gervase Fen, is partly based on Dr. Fell in the novels of John
Dickson Carr. Fen is Professor of English Language and Literature
at Oxford University, and is described as
...a tall lanky man, about forty years of age, with a cheerful, lean ruddy clean shaven face. His dark hair, sedulously plastered down with water, stuck up in spikes at the crown. He had on an enormous raincoat and carried an extraordinary hat.
The moving toyshop (1946)
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