The Case of the Gilded Fly - Edmund Crispin

I´m not completely sold on this book yet.

 

I like the theater setting and the relationsships between the characters. They either hate each other or are in love with each other, and everyone is stuck together in getting a play up on the scene.

 

What I don´t like about this story is the incessant foreshadowing along the lines of "character XYZ didn´t know that in one week from now he has heard something that points towards the murderer". Crispin does this repeatedly and I just really dislike it when an author chooses to do this, simply because I don´t think that this adds anything to the story (besides giving me the urge to scream at the author to please stop it).

 

And I just met Gervaise Fen, who seems to be a pompous ass, being rude to other people and who is completely full of himself. Poirot does share some of these characteristics, but he still a likable character. And Gervaise Fen isn´t likeable at all, at least so far.