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...unlikely into the inevitable. A grisly succession of murders, decapitations and other severances in a Devon village involves the rector, a retired major, a composer, a not-too-plodding constable, two detectives, two nymphomaniacs, sundry pig farmers, most of Fleet Street, a blackmailer, a local ancient -and Gervase Fen, an urbane Oxford don and literary critic who, as in previous Crispin novels, discreetly provides the ratiocination that puts all the bods and motives together again. Crispin, 57, may be forgiven for his long vacation from mayhem. In the real world, he maintains an identity as Composer R. Bruce Montgomery...
...Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat poetry...
Where 76,500 Giant fans sat on Sunday, there was once a Giant fen. East Rutherford, New Jersey residents, in fact, never envisioned a big-time football stadium in their private bog--they had in mind a couple of factories, maybe a sewage plant, or something. But a few years back, then-Jersey-governor William Cahill and a bunch of guys he assembled into an outfit known as the "New Jersey Sports and Exposition Commission" headed by Sonny Werblin, came along, and were so taken by the idea of bringing professional football to the financially troubled state that they decided...
...scatterbrained, starry-eyed blonde comes to Washington with her sugar daddy and dimly perceives that the place is a fen of corruption. She may be dumb in the wiles of this world, but she is not a crook. Ultimately, her innate goodness and the love of an idealistic young man allow her to kick the dust of all those capital shenanigans from her heels. Judy Holliday could have played this part perfectly. In fact, in Born Yesterday...
...block from Fen way at the Souvenir Shoppe, a young boy buys a red pennant saying "Boston Patriots...