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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Edmund Crispin

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Edmund Crispin

Edmund Crispin

Born: October 2, 1921
Died: September 15, 1978 (aged 56)
Bio: Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery , an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels.
Known for:
  1. The Moving Toyshop (1946)
  2. The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
  3. Holy Disorders (1946)
  4. Buried for Pleasure (1949)
  5. The long divorce (1951)

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