The Case Of The Gilded Fly

EDMUND CRISPIN

Publication: Victor Gollancz, 1944, London

First edition. Author's first book. Pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery. Light foxing to the front and rear endpapers, else a fine copy in dust jacket with a tiny, almost invisible closed tear to top edge of rear panel and minor wear to the spine ends. This is the nicest copy of this title that we have ever seen.The murder of an actress involves a coterie of odd figures, including a parrot who quotes Heinrich Heine in German and a large team of monkeys testing the hypothesis that they will inevitably type all the books in the British Museum. The first Gervase Fen mystery and an exceptional copy of the author's first book.

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