The Moving Toyshop
Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the door unlocked; surely the owner should be alerted. And so Cadogan slips into the darkened store and up the narrow stairway to the apartment above....
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Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the door unlocked; surely the owner should be alerted. And so Cadogan slips into the darkened store and up the narrow stairway to the apartment above. But rather than a snoring toyman, he finds a very dead old lady, the marks of murder still livid on her neck. But when Cadogan returns with the coppers, the toyshop ... has disappeared. This, it seems, is a matter for Gervase Fen.Cover from 1982 reprint
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00XZGWP1I
Publish date: 2015-06-04
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited / Harvill
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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