{"product_id":"2026100006394-secondhand-the-moving-toyshop","title":"The Moving Toyshop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48893806379227,"sku":"2026100006394-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/25c63404-3079-43b3-ae3e-0203f73ad7ff.png?v=1782040314","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006394-secondhand-the-moving-toyshop","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}