Edmund Crispin was quite popular writer of classic detective fiction during those strange times when bunch of idle-minded people didn't have anything to do but write about most disgusting way people could die. There is some interesting article about that phenomenon by some journalist.
Composer of music, Edmund Crispin wrote quite a bunch of these mysteries back in the day featuring oxford don Gervase Fen, amateur sleuth. In this particular novel he investigates death of Gloria, up and coming movie star. Of all traditional sleuths Gervase Fen is best, and Crispin prose is very well balanced with humor and suspense, which is best seen in his novel Moving Toyshop.
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