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The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), written while Crispin was an undergraduate at Oxford and first published in the UK in 1944. It was published in the US a year later under the title Obsequies at Oxford.
- Edmund Crispin
- 1944
The Case of the Gilded Fly is a golden age English mystery novel by Edmund Crispin, the first of a series of nine featuring the detecting don, Gervase Fen.
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May 15, 2014 · The dead body of actress Yseut Haskell is decorated with a bizarre ring pushed onto a finger after death — a gilded fly, copied from an ancient Egyptian ring. Despite this oddity, the police want to close the case as a suicide. But they can’t be hasty because of the objections of Gervase Fen, an Oxford don famous as a brilliant amateur sleuth.
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Jun 1, 2005 · The dead body of actress Yseut Haskell is decorated with a bizarre ring pushed onto a finger after death — a gilded fly, copied from an ancient Egyptian ring. Despite this oddity, the police want to close the case as a suicide. But they can’t be hasty because of the objections of Gervase Fen, an Oxford don famous as a brilliant amateur sleuth.
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- Edmund Crispin
Gervase Fen, a professor of English in Oxford, England: The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1), Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen, #2), The Moving Toysho...
May 15, 2014 · The Case of the Gilded Fly, first published in 1944, is Edmund Crispin's debut novel and also the first Gervase Fen Mystery.
Jun 1, 2017 · 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.
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