Description
Written in 1946, The Moving Toyshop is generally regarded as one of the best detective stories that Edmund Crispin ever wrote.
Set in Oxford, this great spoof features an unlikely detective, Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature. It includes as lively a cast of characters as any present-day writing in the genre: aspiring poet, eccentric millionairess, greedy medium, candid solicitor, neurotic doctor, mean publisher, embittered schoolmaster, lovely young lady, and a host of drunken undergraduates, not to mention a purplish corpse in a pool of dried blood. Embroiling both town and gown, Fen’s investigation turns the whole city topsy-turvy.
