The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

The Moving Toyshop

by Edmund Crispin

Collins Crime Club, HarperCollins, 2015
ISBN 9780008124120
Paperback

Condition: Near Fine
minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers (see photographs)

“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.  When the police arrive, the toyshop has disappeared and they are understandably sceptical about Richard’s tale, but his former schoolmate, Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen, knows that truth can be stranger than fiction.  Soon the bookish duo are careering around town in hot pursuit of clues, but just when they think they understand what has happened, the mystery of the disappearing toyshop takes a sharp turn…”