The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), written while Crispin was an undergraduate...
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appearance in The Case of the Gilded Fly and is introduced as wishing to be involved in a "splendidly complicated crime". He is described by one of the other...
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This is a list of professors appearing throughout fiction....
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Edmund Crispin (category Members of the Detection Club)
starting with The Case of The Gilded Fly. The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's...
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of fiction, probably because they allow the author greater licence for invention and a reduced risk of being accused of libel, as might happen if the...
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Michaelmas Term at St Bride's (Philip Larkin, 1943) The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin, 1944) The Silent Traveller in Oxford (Chiang Yee, 1944) Brideshead...
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travelling down on the train from Paddington. Once there he joins up with Fen and together they try and solve two murders in a case that combines witchcraft...
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'Edmund Crispin' (Bruce Montgomery)'s comic detective novel The Case of the Gilded Fly (written the previous Easter while he was an undergraduate), introducing...
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1944 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
in the Spring (as Mary Westmacott) Colette – Gigi J.J. Connington – Jack-in-the-Box Edmund Crispin – The Case of the Gilded Fly A. J. Cronin – The Green...
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The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin From "I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead" (IV.vii): The Wheel...
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about an amateur sleuth who is just as versed in literature as Spenser. For example, see The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944). Parker's page on this book...
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No One. One of Adair's precursors in this field was crime writer Edmund Crispin, for example in his debut novel, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944). Published...
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Argiope aurantia (category Spiders of the United States)
name Argiope meaning "silver-face", while the specific epithet aurantia means "gilded"). The body length of males range from 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in); females...
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Fear The Walking Dead Drops for Series Finale, Holiday Hotline Strong, The Gilded Age and Rick & Morty Slip". TV Ratings Guide. Archived from the original...
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Look up fly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the field of transport a fly is, by definition, a vehicle that moves quickly. Examples include a light...
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Sainte-Chapelle (redirect from The Holy Chapel)
display the sacred objects. This was a case, open on the front, 2.7 meters (8 ft 10 in) long, made of silver and gilded copper. Each of the individual...
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Pope (redirect from Sovereign of the Vatican City)
the World"). Another renowned part of the coronation was the lighting of a bundle of flax at the top of a gilded pole, which would flare brightly for...
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the violently-enforced Jim Crow system that lasted until roughly 1968. The "Gilded Age" was a term that Mark Twain used to describe the period of the...
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Inferno (Dante) (redirect from The circles of hell)
find the hypocrites listlessly walking around a narrow track for eternity, weighted down by leaden robes. The robes are brilliantly gilded on the outside...
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development of the initial T65 cartridge. It has a long heavy bullet with a semi-armor-piercing iron or mild steel core and a gilded steel jacket. After the Vietnam...
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Trocadéro Palace (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
overlooking the gilded statues of the five parts of the world. From there, the panorama is magnificent". For the 1900 exhibition, the pavilions of the French...
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English irregular verbs (section Anomalous cases)
The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use—and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the...
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to focus on Connie Casey of the Missouri Primate Foundation, however Casey declined an interview. Following the success of Tiger King, potential subjects...
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the production of physical flags for use by federal agencies. Hoist (height) of the flag: A = 1.0 Fly (width) of the flag: B = 1.9 Hoist (height) of the...
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Denmark (redirect from Denmark (country within the Kingdom of Denmark))
mass media date back to the 1540s, when handwritten fly sheets reported on the news. In 1666, Anders Bording, the father of Danish journalism, began...
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Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1.1 (2002): 68–92 online. Brett Flehinger, The 1912 Election...
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Morristown, New Jersey (redirect from Gilded Age of Morristown)
as "the street of the 100 millionaires" due to the sheer extravagance of the houses that were constructed. Between 1880 and 1929, the Gilded Age of Morristown...
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The Red Skelton Show Tied with NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and The F.B.I. Dick York missed a total of 14 episodes during his five years on the show...
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Aurora (comics) (section X-Men: The End)
temporarily cured of her multiple personalities. Alongside the X-Men and Alpha Flight, she battled Loki. She was again attacked by Gilded Lily. Aurora was...
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Empire cities and to the United States during the late 19th century, being most commonly used in New York City. The cab, a type of fly, sat two passengers...
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