Edmund Crispin

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 steller 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...

With the customary mixture of wit and comic social comment, Oxford don Gervase Fen investigates the bizarre and ominous events going on at a girls' high school and a neighboring boys' public school.