A review by tessisreading2
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

4.0

Fun Golden Age mystery written - and set - during World War II. Characterizations are really good and the setting is fun. Very much of the "detective knows how it was done" (and says so repeatedly throughout the book) but the reader is left to figure it out on her own until the final climactic moment when the Killer goes crazy and the detective gets the drawing room scene where he explains it all. The mystery was one of those complex ones that rely upon, like, the butler's not having closed the door properly in Chapter 3; did you spot that? Did you? I loved the characters and the atmosphere, didn't care for the mystery aspect so much.