Both Edmund Crispin's Moving Toyshop and Alan Melville's Quick Curtain are mentioned in the "Making Fun of Murder" chapter of Martin Edwards's Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. Both are excellent examples of writers taking something as horrific as murder and turning it right around and into a fa...
Ah, there are some truly exceptional word-jokes in here. I often found myself emitting great barks and woofs of laughter as I drove to and from work with this spinning in the CD player. I think of all fforde's books I've so far read, I like this one best. Genius.
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