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Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books (Hardcover, New edition)
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Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books (Hardcover, New edition)
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Under his real name, Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) wrote concert
music and the scores for almost 50 feature films, including some of
the most enduring British comedies of the twentieth century,
amongst them a number in the series started by Doctor in the House
and the first six Carry On films. Under the pseudonym of Edmund
Crispin he enjoyed equal success as an author, writing nine highly
acclaimed detective novels and a number of short crime stories, as
well as compiling anthologies of science fiction which helped to
increase the profile of the genre. A close friend of both Philip
Larkin and Kingsley Amis, Montgomery did much to encourage their
work. In this first biography of Montgomery, David Whittle draws on
interviews with people who knew the writer and composer. These
interviews, together with in-depth research, provide great insight
into the development of Montgomery as a crime fiction writer and as
a composer in the ever-demanding world of films. During the late
1950s and early '60s these demands were to prove too much for
Montgomery. Alcoholism combined with the onset of osteoporosis and
a retreat into a semi-reclusive lifestyle resulted in him writing
and composing virtually nothing during the last 15 years of his
life. David Whittle examines the reasons for Montgomery's early and
rapid decline in this thoroughly researched and engagingly written
biography.
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