A vibe

[cimorene]

Every suggestion of improvement or modernization was grimly resisted by the management, which consisted of a large, ancient man manifestly disintegrating at a great rate into his component chemical elements.

— Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly

Comments

[mecurtin]

That's evergreen, all right.

But do you mean Edmund Crispin, author of Gervase Fen?

[cimorene]

Oh, yes.

I read a mystery recently with a character named Edmund Gervase: probably a nod to him...