871:'Who Killed Baker?', 'Death and Aunt Fancy', 'The Hunchback Cat', 'The Lion's Tooth', 'Gladstone's Candlestick', 'The Man Who Lost His Head', 'The Two Sisters' , 'Outrage in Stepney', 'A Country to Sell', 'A Case in Camera', 'Blood Sport', 'The Pencil', 'Windhover Cottage', 'The House by the River', 'After Evensong', 'Death Behind Bars', 'We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute', 'Cash on Delivery', 'Shot in the Dark', 'The Mischief Done', 'Merry-Go-Round', 'Occupational Risk', 'Dog in the Night-Time', 'Man Overboard', 'The Undraped Torso', 'Wolf!'
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Although his film work got his music out to a huge audience, the numerous comedy scores in particular stand in stark contrast to Bruce
Montgomery's concert works and church music with which he started out. These began to appear in the mid-1940s, at the same time his detective novels were appearing
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Concertino for String Orchestra of 1950 – a substantial three movement piece despite the modest title, and the only purely instrumental work Montgomery ever had published – are generally available as recordings. There are recordings of two concert works derived from film scores:
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653:(1977). By now, the composer character, Broderick Thouless, is writing "difficult" film music and light concert works rather than the other way round (as it was with Napier in
702:) was published in June 2007. A previously unpublished novella, featuring Gervase Fen, "The Hours of Darkness," has been included in the 2019 edition of the annual anthology,
229:"by combining a devoted commitment to writing with a huge appetite for drinking and fooling around, he gave Larkin a model of the ways in which art could avoid pretension".
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Crispin is considered by many to be one of the last great exponents of the classic crime mystery. He was inducted into the prestigious
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Montgomery composed the scores for nearly forty films, including documentaries and thrillers. The
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Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books
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Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books
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1241:. London Evening Standard, 10 August 1955. Collected in
1081:. London Evening Standard, September 1952. Collected in
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1201:. London Evening Standard, 7 August 1954. Collected in
1191:. London Evening Standard, 6 August 1954. Collected in
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People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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1061:. London Evening Standard, August 1952. Collected in
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Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
1305:(1979). Also published as ‘'Danger, Writer at Work'’
1115:(1979). Also published as ‘'The Crime by the River'’
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1321:. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1975
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16:British composer and crime novelist (1921–1978)
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2047:"Lane, Philip. Notes to Naxos 8.555069 (2001)"
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1215:(1979). Also published as ‘'What’s His Line?’’
1195:(1979). Also published as ‘'The Unloaded Gun'’
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2159:Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin'
2091:, ed. Tony Medawar, Collins Crime Club, 2019
1750:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
916:. Daily Sketch, December 1949. Collected in
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1721:ballad opera for narrator and chorus (1962)
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310:(1961), and his other film scores included
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1301:. Winter's Crimes 1 (1969). Collected in
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968:. London Evening Standard. Collected in
958:. London Evening Standard. Collected in
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2019:British Film Composers in Concert
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1688:Comedy Overture: Bartholomew Fair
1409:Film scores (as Bruce Montgomery)
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2006:English String Miniatures Vol 3
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1958:, White Line CD WHL2140 (2003)
1831:Philip Larkin, a Writer's Life
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2132:. Oxford University Press.
2110:, "Best SF" to "Best SF 7".
1817:Archive of Bruce Montgomery
1792:. Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 4.
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1843:Herbert, Rosemary (2003).
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1029:The Evidence for the Crown
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759:The Case of the Gilded Fly
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168:High Commissioner of India
1618:Le avventure di Cartouche
1433:Twice Round the Daffodils
1370:"The Hours of Darkness,"
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1682:Overture to a Fairy Tale
1384:"The Year and the Day,"
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191:Merchant Taylors' School
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2124:Whittle, David (2004).
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1956:British Light Overtures
1954:Lane, Philip. Notes to
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1786:Whittle, David (2017).
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1365:Ghosts from the Library
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1006:The Name on the Window
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743:The Victoria Vanishes
726:The Well-Mannered War
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1549:The Surgeon's Knife
1453:Carry On Regardless
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996:Black for a Funeral
924:The Quick Brown Fox
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1493:Carry On Constable
1461:Beware of Children
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1199:The Undraped Torso
956:Humbleby Agonistes
799:Love Lies Bleeding
779:The Moving Toyshop
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1309:The Mischief Done
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147:Carry On
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