Yseut Haskell a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying mens lives is found dead in a college room just metres from unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fens 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 Yseuts 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 & is the perfect introduction to this most idiosyncratic eccentric & entertaining detective."