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Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists and unexpected turns.
After an eventful train journey, Cadogan arrives in Oxford late at night only to realise that he has forgotten the exact address of his stay. Relying on a distant memory of the place he boarded in years ago he accidentally enters a toyshop where, to his surprise and fright, he finds the dead body of a woman. Knocked out and locked in the store room, Cadogan emerges to find that the body is gone and the toyshop has turned inexplicably into a grocery shop. Luckily for the puzzled poet his old university friend Gervase Fen is there, ready to plunge into the midst of this mystery.
The Moving Toyshop is Edmund Crispin's most famous novel featuring eccentric amateur detective, Gervase Fen.
After an eventful train journey, Cadogan arrives in Oxford late at night only to realise that he has forgotten the exact address of his stay. Relying on a distant memory of the place he boarded in years ago he accidentally enters a toyshop where, to his surprise and fright, he finds the dead body of a woman. Knocked out and locked in the store room, Cadogan emerges to find that the body is gone and the toyshop has turned inexplicably into a grocery shop. Luckily for the puzzled poet his old university friend Gervase Fen is there, ready to plunge into the midst of this mystery.
The Moving Toyshop is Edmund Crispin's most famous novel featuring eccentric amateur detective, Gervase Fen.
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Hilarious adventures
'Washington Post
One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction
P. D. James
Marvellous comic sense
Independent
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'Washington Post
One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction
P. D. James
Marvellous comic sense
Independent
A quirky and appealing locked room mystery for all fans of classic crime
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- PublisherBloomsbury Reader
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1448216613
- ISBN 13 9781448216611
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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