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Theatre companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University: the beautiful, malicious Yseut a mediocre actress with a stellar talent for destroying men, a cast of her past and present conquests, as well as the women who love them, and watching from the wings is Professor Gervase Fen (scholar, wit, and fop extraordinaire) who would rather solve crimes than expound on English literature. When Yseut is suddenly found murdered, Fen finally gets his wish . . .
Originally published in 1944, The Case of the Guilded Fly is the first Gervase Fen mystery, and the debut novel of the pseudonymous Edmund Crispin, later determined to be composer Bruce Montgomery.