Yseut Haskell, a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for
destroying men's lives, is found dead in a college room just metres from
unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fen's office. The victim is found
wearing an unusual ring, a reproduction of a piece in the British Museum
featuring a gold gilded fly but does this shed any light on her murder?
As they delve deeper into Yseut's unhappy life the police soon realise
that anyone who knew her would have shot her, but can Fen discover who
could have shot her?The Case of the Gilded Fly is the first Gervase Fen
mystery and is the perfect introduction to this most idiosyncratic,
eccentric and entertaining detective.