The Case of the Gilded Fly

by Edmund Crispin, Philip Bird (Read by)

Overview

Yseut Haskell, a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men's lives, is found dead in a college room just metres from unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fen's office. The victim is found wearing an unusual ring, a reproduction of a piece in the British Museum featuring a gold gilded fly but does this shed any light on her murder?

As they delve deeper into Yseut's unhappy life the police soon realise that anyone who knew her would have shot her, but can Fen discover who could have shot her? The Case of the Gilded Fly is the first Gervase Fen mystery and is the perfect introduction to this most idiosyncratic, eccentric and entertaining detective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781799736271
Publisher:	Audible Studios on Brilliance
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Edmund Crispin (1921–1978) was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery), an English crime writer and composer. Montgomery wrote nine detective novels and two collections of short stories under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin (taken from a character in Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge!). The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John's College. Fen is an eccentric, sometimes absent-minded, character reportedly based on the Oxford professor W. E. Moore.

Editorial Reviews

A classic detective story and a ludicrous literary farce” —Guardian

“One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story ... elegant, literate, and funny” —The Times

“The Case of the Gilded Fly couldn't be more British if it came packaged with fish and chips” —New York Sun

“I very much enjoy Edmund Crispin” —P.D. James

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