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Felony & Mayhem
June 2005
On Sale: June 1, 2005
237 pages
ISBN: 1933397004
EAN: 9781933397009
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Thriller Crime
Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and
few are more intriguing than the company currently in
residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the
beautiful, malicious Yseut – a mediocre actress with a
stellar talent for destroying men. Rounding out the cast
are more than a few of her past and present conquests, and
the women who love them. And watching from the wings is
Professor Gervase Fen – scholar, wit, and fop
extraordinaire – who would infinitely rather solve crimes
than expound on English literature. When Yseut is murdered,
Fen finally gets his wish. Though clear kin to Lord Peter
Wimsey, Fen is a spectacular original – brilliant,
eccentric and rude, much taken with himself and his
splendid yellow raincoat, and given to quoting Lewis
Carroll at inappropriate occasions. Gilded Fly, originally
published in 1944, was both Fen’s first outing and the
debut of the pseudonymous Crispin (in reality, composer
Bruce Montgomery), whom the New York Times once called the
heir to “John Dickson Carr . . . and Groucho Marx.”
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