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23%OFFEdmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery) - 9780008124120 - V9780008124120
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The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery)

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Description for The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery) Paperback. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Series: A Gervase Fen Mystery. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.

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. ... Read more

Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful – Before Morse, Oxford's murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
A Gervase Fen Mystery
Condition
New
Weight
176g
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008124120
SKU
V9780008124120
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

About Edmund Crispin
Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote nine detective novels and 42 short stories, combining farcical situations with literary references and sharply observed characterisation. His professional film scores included the well-known scores for the Carry ... Read more

Reviews for The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery)
"A clever, funny and rightly famous story set in Oxford 30 years before Morse started pounding the beat" The Times, 100 Best Crime Novels of the Twentieth Century "The characters were so engaging and the writing so mischievous, that I thoroughly enjoyed it" Miles Kington, Independent ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery)


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