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The Case of the Gilded Fly

A Gervase Fen Mystery

Pocket
Engelsk
A Gervase Fen Mystery
The Case of the Gilded Fly
The Case of the Gilded Fly
  • Forfatter: Edmund Crispin
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 256
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: A Gervase Fen Mystery
  • EAN: 9780008275150
  • Utgivelsesår: 2018
  • Bidragsyter: Crispin, Edmund
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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