The Case of the Gilded Fly (The First Gervase Fen Mystery) (Volume 1) - Softcover

Crispin, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933397004 ISBN 13: 9781933397009

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, 2005

Synopsis

Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut, a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men. Rounding out the cast are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and the women who love them. And watching from the wings is Professor Gervase Fen?scholar, wit, and fop extraordinaire?who would rather solve crimes than expound on English literature. When Yseut is murdered, Fen finally gets his wish. Gilded Fly, originally published in 1944, was both Fen's first outing and the debut of the pseudonymous Crispin (in reality, composer Bruce Montgomery).

About this title

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.

Review:

"Immensely witty and literate" --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1933397004
• ISBN 13: 9781933397009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 241