| LC control no. | n 81080329 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6025.O46 |
| Personal name heading | Crispin, Edmund, 1921-1978 |
| See also | Real identity: Montgomery, Bruce, 1921-1978 |
| Birth date | 1921-10-02 |
| Death date | 1978-09-15 |
| Place of birth | Chesham (England) |
| Field of activity | Creative writing |
| Affiliation | St. John's College (University of Oxford) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Special note | Old catalog heading: Montgomery, Robert Bruce |
| Found in | His The moving toyshop, 1981, c1974: t.p. (Edmund Crispin) jkt. (a composer of music for motion pictures under his real name, Bruce Montgomery) 20th cent. crime & mystery writers, 1980 (Crispin, Edmund; b. 10/2/21; d. 9/15/78) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Montgomery, Robert Bruce; usage: Bruce Montgomery (music), Edmund Crispin (fiction)) El canto del cisne, 2012: title page (Edmund Crispin) jacket (Edmund Crispin, Bruce Montgomery) Wikipedia, July 15, 2016 (Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (October 2, 1921 -- September 15, 1978), an English crime writer and composer. Montgomery was born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire; he graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having for two years been its organ scholar and choirmaster. He first became established under his own name as a composer of vocal and choral music. Montgomery wrote nine detective novels and two collections of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin) |
| Associated language | eng |
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