The Case of the Gilded Fly

About “The Case of the Gilded Fly”

In October 1940, at Oxford, playwright Robert Warner brings his troupe to rehearse his new play Metromania before its premiere at a repertory theater. Among the cast is the beautiful but promiscuously dangerous Yseut Haskell, whose plots and love triangles cause a stir. When she is found shot dead in a young man's college room, the actors are suspect, but police are ready to call it suicide until Oxford don Gervase Fen steps in. This 1944 novel is Edmund Crispin's debut and the first Gervase Fen mystery.