The Moving Toyshop
by Crispin, Edmund
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1448216877
- ISBN 13
- 9781448216871
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London, ENG: Bloomsbury Reader. Near Fine. 2018. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 205 pages. A Gervase Fen Mystery. This is a vintage murder mystery. 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 .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609474
- Title
- The Moving Toyshop
- Author
- Crispin, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1448216877
- ISBN 13
- 9781448216871
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Reader
- Place of Publication
- London, ENG
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, TRADITIONAL BRITISH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Traditional British;
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