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The Case of the Gilded Fly opens on the first day of Full Term at Oxford University in October 1940. Playwright Robert Warner brings his experimental production of *Metromania* and a diverse cast of actors to rehearse. Among them, the striking Yseut Haskell, whose intrigue and love affairs stir drama both onstage and off, is found shot in the college room of a young man infatuated with her. With no clear alibi and countless motives, the police picture the death as a suicide. But Oxford don and literature professor Gervase Fen, known for his love of solving puzzles, takes up the case, promising to expose the truth behind the fatal act.
First publish date: 1944
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Edmund Crispin
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