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| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz Lippincott (US) |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Swan Song |
| Followed by | Buried for Pleasure |
Love Lies Bleeding is a detective novel by Edmund Crispin, first published in 1948. Set in the post-war period in and around a public school in the vicinity of Stratford-upon-Avon, it is about the accidental discovery of old manuscripts which contain Shakespeare's long-lost play, Love's Labour's Won , and the subsequent hunt for those manuscripts, in the course of which several people are murdered. Collaborating with the local police, Oxford don Gervase Fen, a professor of English who happens to be the guest of honour at the school's Speech Day, can solve the case at the same weekend.
