The case of the gilded fly

The case of the gilded fly

Edmund Crispin, 1921-1978

Book - 2018

It is October 1940 and Gervase Fen, Oxford don and part-time sleuth--is preparing for the new term. Trouble is in store when Robert Warner, up and coming playwright, chooses Oxford for the premiere of his latest play, Metromania. Together with his cast he comes to Oxford to rehearse a week before the opening, but Warner's motley troupe includes the beautiful but dangerous Yseut Haskell. When she is found shot dead in the college room of a young man who is infatuated with her, everyone is worried--most of the actors have had a reason to get rid of the femme fatale and few have alibis. The police are at loss for answers and are ready to proclaim the incident as suicide, until Gervase Fen, who thrives off solving mysteries, volunteers to ...help.

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Subjects
Fen, Gervase (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
English teachers > England > Fiction.
Oxford (England) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Published
London : Bloomsbury Reader 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Edmund Crispin, 1921-1978 (-)
Item Description
Originally published in Great Britain in 1944 by Victor Gollancz.
Physical Description
224 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781448216888
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

This is not, as the publisher claims, the first publication of The Case of the Gilded Fly in the U.S. It was published in 1945 (Lippincott) under the ungainly title, Obsequies at Oxford. But, in any case, it is a pleasure to have Edmund Crispin's first case for Oxford professor Gervase Fen back in print--especially since Crispin died soon after the U.S. publication of last year's The Glimpses of the Moon, which gave Gervase Fen a jovial comeback after 25 years in retirement. The Case of the Gilded Fly is one of the best Fen investigations, rich in droll Oxford atmosphere and the backstage intrigues of a theatrical troupe. A welcome reprint--as will be those of the other Crispin mysteries promised by Walker & Co. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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