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The Moving Toyshop by Crispin, Edmund, 1921-1978 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Moving Toyshop about?
Named by P.D. James as one of the best five mysteries of all time. Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the door unlocked; surely the owner should be alerted. And so Cadogan slips into the darkened store and up the narrow stairway to the apartment above. But rather than a snoring toyman, he finds a very dead old lady, the marks of murder still livid on her neck. But when Cadogan returns with the coppers, the toyshop...has disappeared. This, it seems, is a matter for Gervase Fen.
Who reads The Moving Toyshop?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Crispin, Edmund, 1921-1978
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140013153
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Moving Toyshop (2015)
- The Moving Toyshop (2009)
- The Moving Toyshop: A Gervase Fen Mystery (1946)
- The moving toyshop;: A detective story, (1970)
- The Moving Toyshop (1988)
- The Moving Toyshop (2014)
- The Moving Toyshop: A Gervase Fen Mystery (1977)
- The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen Mysteries) (2007)
- The Moving Toyshop (1812)
- The Moving Toyshop (2007)
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