Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Daydreaming child with nice manners: 1921-1928
• An intellectual snob: 1928-1940
• A seminal moment: 1940-1943
• What a bloody business: 1943-1945
• You mustn't mind if I pay for it: music and novels 1945-1952
• It ought to go off all right: music 1948-1950
• I still think it isn't half bad: music 1951-1952
• The home of lost corpses: novels 1947-1948
• Mania for needless impostures: novels 1950-1953
• A genuine unforced enthusiasm: films 1948-1962
• Complicated by downright panic: films 1958-1962
• Much engrossed with doom: anthologies 1954-1966
• I've become an immobilist: 1950-1962
• A sort of slack sabbatical: 1962-1976
• A full scale replica of Chatsworth: 1962-1976
• Slightly low water: 1959-1970
• High time I was under new management: 1957-1976
• The bonelessness of the short-distance funner: 1974-1978
• Postcript
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.