by Edmund Crispin
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...
I *want* to like Crispin, but I just can't. This book was okay. I certainly did learn a few new words: fortalice, atrabilious, tautologist, and steatopygic. But I find him kind of negative and disdainful. This is the second one I've tried and it's considered one of his best, so I probably won't try...
If ever there was a precursor to the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin - this is it. Wonderful fun. On the last page Fen says 'Let's play "Awful Lines from Shakespeare"' and I bet that would be good fun to play.TR - The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)TR - Holy Disorders (1945)4* - The Moving Toyshop ...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. A mystery novel at a gulp. Suitably sordid motives, a limited number of equally-possible murderers, and a curious disappearing toyshop which reappears elsewhere (it turns out to have been a plot to confuse the victim of an extortion attempt). Pleasant, but not tre...
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