The young actress Isolde Haskell was hated by many, but who decided to kill her? While the police are compiling a list of fans and lovers whose lives Isolde somehow destroyed, Gervase Fen begins his own investigation. His only clue is an unusual ring with a gold fly found on the victim... The poet Richard Cadogan came to Oxford to have a good time, but, getting lost on the first evening, he accidentally walked into a toy store... where he discovered the corpse of an elderly woman. The police who arrived at the crime scene found neither the body nor the store itself! The officers of the law did not believe Richard’s story. However, his childhood friend Gervase Fen is convinced: the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and much more dangerous...