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    The Moving Toyshop

    Written by Edmund Crispin

    Narrated by Paul Panting

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    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. The police are understandably skeptical of this tale but Richard's former schoolmate, Gervase Fen (Oxford professor and amateur detective), knows that truth is stranger than fiction (in fiction, at least). Soon the intrepid duo are careening around town in hot pursuit of clues but just when they think they understand what has happened, the disappearing-toyshop mystery takes a sharp turn…

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 4, 2015
    ISBN9780008124144
    Author

    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 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci–fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978.

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    • 5/5
      I have read and listened to all of Crispin's full-length books; 'The Moving Toyshop' is no exception -- but this time the work really 'clicked' for me, and I appreciated it on this hearing much more than before.
      Montgomery / Crispin was a composer, and he has somehow created a whodunnit in which his score moves from brutal realism to fanciful comic sections while not letting the tone deteriorate into bathos or irrelevant implausibility.
      Crispin is very good on Oxford, and he merges a deep knowledge of literature into a book with several murders. In the hands of a less skilful writer, that Mischung would have generated an absurd imbroglio that pleased few but ERC pulls it off. The main protagonist, Fen is even more unpleasant than usual, part of EC's good taste; in this book Fen as Nervensaeger (pain in the neck) is acceptably less irritating than in others. And it is LOL in places.
      Don't expect a police procedural!