The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

Author:Edmund Crispin [Crispin, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1961-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

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A gust of overwhelming fury smote the Inspector. `Now it is you,' he cried hoarsely, `who are wandering from the point. The problem is not to decide how the murder was done, though that may have its importance.; The problem is to decide who did it.'

'But we know that, don't we?' said Fen with deliberate malice.

The Inspector paused, He appeared to: be summoning up his resources for a titanic counterblast to this, offensive suggestion. His lower jaw dropped and the blood rushed pinkly,: to his cheeks. No adequate rhetoric, however, was at, his disposal, and regretfully dismissing the impulse of violent physical expression, he resorted to a heavy, subliminal irony. `You may know, sir,' he said ineffectually at last.

`I do,' said Fen simply.

Sir Richard was at once the incarnation of bluff, hearty common sense. `Nonsense, Gervase!'

`I do know.' Fen adopted the theatrical wail of those who believe themselves to be everlastingly misunderstood by their fellows. `I knew three minutes after we arrived in that room.'

`Three mi -!' Curiosity struggled with indignation in Sir Richard's mind; and curiosity abruptly won. `Who then?'

'Ah!'

Sir Richard lifted both hands, palms outward, in the conventional mime for despair. `Oh Lord!' he said. `Mystification again. I know: it can't come out till the last chapter.'

`Nothing of the sort,' said Fen huffily. `The case isn't complete yet. I cannot imagine, in the first place, why this person should do such a thing.'

`Good heavens! Aren't there enough motives hanging around?'

'All sexual motives, my dear Dick. ' I don't believe in the crime passionnel, particularly when the passion appears, as in this case, to be chiefly frustration. Money, vengeance, security: - there are your plausible motives, and I shall look for one of them. I confess, too, that certain details, though probably inessential, still puzzle me.'

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