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Violence
Barely any
A murder in a cathedral setting; classic Golden Age treatment
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate polished language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic subplot
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; brief wartime context
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Light tension from the threats and spy subplot; nothing sustained or distressing
What this book is about
Gervase Fen, Oxford's most eccentric professor-detective, travels to the cathedral close of Tolnbridge after his friend, the cathedral's organist, receives a threatening letter. When murder follows, Fen finds himself navigating a world of choirboys, cathedral politics, and wartime espionage. The second Gervase Fen mystery is brimming with wit, literary allusion, and the particular English atmosphere of a cathedral city in the 1940s.
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