Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue and few are moreintriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University.Centerstage is the b... » 

Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue and few are moreintriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University.Centerstage is the beautiful malicious Yseuta mediocre actress with astellar talent for destroying men. Rounding out the cast are more than a few ofher past and present conquests and the women who love them. And watching fromthe wings is Professor Gervase Fenscholar wit and fop extraordinairewhowould rather solve crimes than expound on English literature. When Yseut ismurdered Fen finally gets his wish. Gilded Fly originally published in 1944was both Fens first outing and the debut of the pseudonymous Crispin inreality composer Bruce Montgomery whom the New York Times once called theheir to John Dickson Car «