The Moving Toyshop
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A cornerstone of the golden age detective novel, The Moving Toyshop is a brilliantly comic and cunningly plotted mystery set in the dreaming spires of Oxford. When poet Richard Cadogan stumbles upon a dead body in a toyshop late at night, only to find the shop transformed into a grocery store by morning, the mystery draws in his old friend Gervase Fen — Oxford don and amateur sleuth — who pursues the case with gleeful eccentricity. Edmund Crispin crafts a narrative that crackles with wit, literary allusion, and ingenious plotting, balancing laugh-out-loud humour with a genuinely baffling whodunit. Widely regarded as Crispin's masterpiece, the novel stands as a triumph of the genre, illustrating why it has remained in print and beloved by mystery enthusiasts for decades.
Author: Edmund Crispin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Victor Gollancz
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A cornerstone of the golden age detective novel, The Moving Toyshop is a brilliantly comic and cunningly plotted mystery set in the dreaming spires of Oxford. When poet Richard Cadogan stumbles upon a dead body in a toyshop late at night, only to find the shop transformed into a grocery store by morning, the mystery draws in his old friend Gervase Fen — Oxford don and amateur sleuth — who pursues the case with gleeful eccentricity. Edmund Crispin crafts a narrative that crackles with wit, literary allusion, and ingenious plotting, balancing laugh-out-loud humour with a genuinely baffling whodunit. Widely regarded as Crispin's masterpiece, the novel stands as a triumph of the genre, illustrating why it has remained in print and beloved by mystery enthusiasts for decades.