 First Edition | |
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Gervase Fen |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Love Lies Bleeding |
| Followed by | Frequent Hearses |
Buried for Pleasure is a 1948 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the sixth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen.[1] As with the rest of the Fen novels, a complex Golden Age-style mystery is combined with elements of farce.[2] Fen contests a by-election in rural constituency, but events are rapidly overtaken by a murder case.[3] It features Detective Inspector Humbleby who also appeared in the next novel Frequent Hearses as well as most of the short stories in the series.