The Case of the Gilded Fly: A Gervase Fen Mystery - Collins Crime Club

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.

About the author

Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci–fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Crispin
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780008275150
• ISBN: 978-0-00-827515-0
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: The Detective Club; The Detective Club; A Gervase Fen Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Classic crime and mystery fiction