The Moving Toyshop (Classic Crime)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140088175 (0140088172)
ASIN: 0140088172
Publish date: 1989-07-05
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Funny,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Golden Age Mystery
Series: Gervase Fen (#3)
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...
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...
Martin Edwards sums up The Moving Toyshop perfectly: "Few crime novels can match Edmund Crispin's most celebrated mystery for sheer exuberance." Exuberance is the perfect word for this book; it's comic without being comedic, and it's obvious (to me, anyway) that the author had a great time writing...
bookshelves: published-1946, adventure, classic, britain-england, amusing, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Lee Aiken; Libbeth Read in April, 2009 If ever there was a precursor to the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin - this is it. Wonderful fun. On the last page F...
Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) wrote comic mystery novels under the pen name of Edmund Crispin, the first of which, "The Case of the Gilded Fly," was published in 1944. Crispin didn't write many novels, but those he did featured the eccentric, absent-minded Oxford don and professor of English a...
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