Stars, Starlets, Floozies, and factotums to the film world--Gervase,
Fen suspects them all....
Gervase Fen is more at home in his ivory tower than in a London film
studio, but Murder can take place anywhere, and aspiring actress Gloria
Scott's suicide definitely looks like murder. Oxford don Gervase Fen is
at the film studios to advise about a film biography of Alexander Pope.
Gloria Scott appears to have had little reason for wanting to kill
herself by jumping off Waterloo bridge, but someone has taken great
pains to hide Gloria's real identity, and Gervase Fen's detective nose
begins to twitch. When a lecherous cameraman is poisoned before his very
eyes, Fen finds himself 'consulting' on a far more familiar matter:
murder.