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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.
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The Case of the Gilded Fly is the first of “Edmund Crispin’s” (Bruce Montgomery’s) Gervase Fen novels, written when he was quite young. It has all the virtues and flaws of youth—exuberant energy, confidence, overreach.
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Fen makes his first appearance in The Case of the Gilded Fly and is introduced as wishing to be involved in a "splendidly complicated crime". He is described by one of the other characters in the novel as "Cherubic, naive, volatile, and entirely delightful, he wandered the earth taking a genuine interest in things and people unfamiliar."
The Case of the Gilded Fly. by Edmund Crispin. 3.52 · 3,264 Ratings · 434 Reviews · published 1944 · 58 editions. Theatre companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigu… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Holy Disorders. by Edmund Crispin. 3.66 · 1,555 Ratings · 173 Reviews · published 1945 · 1 edition. Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is …
15 mag 2014 · The Case of the Gilded Fly, first published in 1944, is Edmund Crispin's debut novel and also the first Gervase Fen Mystery.
30 dic 2022 · The police are at loss for answers and are ready to proclaim the incident as suicide, but Gervase Fen, an Oxford don and professor of literature, who thrives off solving mysteries, is ready to help. The Case of the Gilded Fly, first published in 1944, is Edmund Crispin's debut novel and also the first Gervase Fen Mystery." Read more .
The Case of the Gilded Fly is Edmund Crispin's debut novel and also the first Gervase Fen mystery. It is October 1940 and, at Oxford University, the term has just begun. Robert Warner, an up-and-coming playwright known for his experimental approach, has chosen an Oxford repertory theatre for the premiere of his latest play, Metromania .
