Buried for Pleasure
First Edition | |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Love Lies Bleeding |
| Followed by | Frequent Hearses |
Buried for Pleasure is a 1948 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the sixth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. As with the rest of the Fen novels, a complex Golden Age-style mystery is combined with elements of farce. Fen contests a by-election in rural constituency, but events are rapidly overtaken by a murder case. It features Detective Inspector Humbleby who also appeared in the next novel Frequent Hearses as well as most of the short stories in the series.