HOLY DISORDERS:
GERVASE FEN — MEMORABLE MOMENTS
The following is a purely personal selection of the most memorable
parts, for whatever reason, of Fen’s adventures. (The C indicates which chapter
contains the episode.)
| Case | Event |
| The Moving Toyshop | Fen and Cadogan join the choir in the Sheldonian |
| Fen and Cadogan attempt to make up titles for Crispin | |
| Wondering which fork to choose, ? suggests the left, as this book was published by Gollanz | |
| Virtually any episode in the book | |
| The chases | |
| Holy Disorders | C1, Fielding Versus the enemy |
| the running joke about Fielding — ‘Not the author of…’ | |
| C3, Fen’s start in Lepidoptery | |
| C5, Introducing Fen | |
| C5, Hook, line and sinker — because the reader had to fall for it | |
| C8, Canon Garbin’s raven, and his wife Lenore | |
| C13, Fen saved by a plague of insects | |
| The Case of the Gilded Fly | C10, The Parrot |
| Swan Song | C8, If it’s Tuesday, it must be C.S. Lewis p63 |
| C8, The skeleton from the closet | |
| C23, entering the house with aid of a brick | |
| C23, Fen holds up the chemist | |
| Love Lies Bleeding | C11, Elspeth Murdoch |
| C12-13, Mr Merrythought’s last and finest hour | |
| Frequent Hearses | C15, The Chase |
| Buried For Pleasure | C1, The perils of working in a circulating library: a tendency to dizziness |
| C2, The Canvas | |
| C4, Mr Judd | |
| C6, Fen’s practise speech | |
| C12, Harry and Olive: When swallows be leaving, maids be conceiving | |
| C13, Dr Boysenberry | |
| C16, The reticent Rector’s poltergeist | |
| C19, Fen’s final speech | |
| C21, The Chase | |
| The Long Divorce | C1, The football stand’s stand — or fall |
| C3, Col Babington quits smoking | |
| C7, Fen at Weaver’s service | |
| The Glimpses of the Moon | C4, The 2nd sighting |
| C6, A terrible cutie is born | |
| C9, Ling loses his head | |
| C10, The arrest of Outrud Youings | |
| C11, The Hunt Scene | |
| C12, "Superintendent! I smoke a pipe." | |
| C12, Bangs and balls | |
| C12, The Rector and the man from SWEB | |
| C12, Fen and the pig-man |
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