 First Edition | |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Beware of the Trains |
| Followed by | Fen Country |
The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. [1] It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards [2] on publication it was the first novel in the series to be released since The Long Divorce in 1951. The author died the following year and in 1979 a final work Fen Country, a collection of short stories featuring the detective, was published posthumously. [3]
The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet . It is set in the village of Aller in rural Devon.
