{"product_id":"9780008124120","title":"The Moving Toyshop","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Crispin, Edmund \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/06\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 244 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008124120,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful – Before Morse, Oxford's murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697927585836,"sku":"9780008124120","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008124120.jpg?v=1722607468","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008124120","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}