The Case of the Gilded Fly. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on Aug. Verified Purchase. This Golden Age detective novel begins with eleven people arriving in wartime Oxford, most of whom are involved with putting on a new play out of the glare of London critics/5(). Edmund Crispin's The Case of the Gilded Fly is his first Gervase Fen mystery and follows the relationships of a theater troupe recently arrived in Oxford to put on a new play by a celebrated playwright. When one of the actresses, the universally disliked Yseut Haskell, is . The dead body of actress Yseut Haskell is decorated with a bizarre ring pushed onto a finger after death — a gilded fly, copied from an ancient Egyptian ring. Despite this oddity, the police want to close the case as a suicide. But they can’t be hasty because of the objections of Gervase Fen, an Oxford don famous as a brilliant amateur sleuth/5().
Gilded Fly, originally published in , was both Fen's first outing and the debut of the pseudonymous Crispin (in reality, composer Bruce Montgomery), whom the New York Times once called the heir to "John Dickson Carr and Groucho Marx.". The Case of the Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin First published in the UK , Victor Gollancz This edition Vintage, ISBN: pages Source: City Bookshop The Case of the Gilded Fly is the first mystery novel by Edmund Crispin. Crispin was a pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, a professor of music who, as well as. The case of the gilded fly Paperback - January 1, by Edmund Crispin (Author) › Visit Amazon's Edmund Crispin Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Edmund Crispin (Author) out of 5 stars ratings.
The case of the gilded fly Paperback – January 1, by Edmund Crispin (Author) › Visit Amazon's Edmund Crispin Page. Find all the books, read about the author. The Case of the Gilded Fly. The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), written while Crispin was an undergraduate at Oxford and first published in the UK in It was published in the US a year later under the title Obsequies at Oxford. Crispin's debut novel, it contains the. out of 5 stars. The Case of the Gilded Fly. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on Aug. Verified Purchase. This Golden Age detective novel begins with eleven people arriving in wartime Oxford, most of whom are involved with putting on a new play out of the glare of London critics.
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