The moving toyshop / Edmund Crispin.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Reader, 2016Copyright date: ©1946Description: xiii, 217 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781448216611 (paperback)
- 1448216613
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Mystery | Crispin, Edmund | GF 3 | Available | Water damage noted | 33111008836807 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming spires. Late one night, however, he discovers the dead body of an elderly woman lying in a toyshop and is coshed on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. The police are understandably skeptical of this tale but Richard's former schoolmate, Gervase Fen (Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature), knows that truth is stranger than fiction.