 American first edition | |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz Dodd, Mead (US) |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Frequent Hearses |
| Followed by | Beware of the Trains |
The Long Divorce is a 1951 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the eighth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] It was the penultimate novel in the series, with a gap or more than twenty five years before the next entry The Glimpses of the Moon , although a collection of short stories Beware of the Trains was published in 1953. The novel features many traits of a Golden Age mystery, set in a small, wealthy English village. The title doesn't refer to a marriage but is a quote from Shakespeare's Henry VIII "the long divorce of steel". [2] It was published in the United States by Dodd, Mead in 1951 under the same title, and a year later as A Noose for Her.
