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The Case of the Gilded Fly - A Gervase Fen Mystery (Paperback)
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The Case of the Gilded Fly - A Gervase Fen Mystery (Paperback)
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The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the
last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha
Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry
point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund
Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. A pretty but
spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men's lives is
found dead in a college room just yards from the office of the
unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fen. Anyone who knew the girl
would gladly have shot her, but can Fen discover who did shoot her,
and why? Published during the Second World War, The Case of the
Gilded Fly introduced English professor and would-be detective
Gervase Fen, one of crime fiction's most irrepressible and popular
sleuths. A classic locked-room mystery filled with witty literary
allusions, it was the debut of 'a new writer who calls himself
Edmund Crispin' (in reality the choral and film composer Bruce
Montgomery), later described by The Times as 'One of the last
exponents of the classical English detective story . . . elegant,
literate, and funny.' This Detective Story Club classic is
introduced by Douglas G. Greene, who reveals how Montgomery's
ambition to emulate John Dickson Carr resulted in a string of
successful and distinctive Golden Age detective novels and an
invitation from Carr himself to join the exclusive Detection Club.
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