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Loading... The Moving Toyshop (original 1946; edition 1986)by Edmund Crispin
Work InformationThe Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin (1946)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I'm sure the author had a wonderful time writing this book. I did not guess how the murder was done in such a way that everybody had an alibi for the time of death except for a sweet young thing of a girl, who couldn't have done it because she is a sweet young thing. And I don't think the solution is something a general reader could figure out. The perpetrator(s) went through a lot of trouble to enact the crime(s), much more than necessary, in my opinion. There is an exciting scene on a roundabout amusement ride; it seemed, on quiet reflection silly since it provided no means of escape, but it did remind me of the merry-go-round scene in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. I read the book because I happened upon the website for the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, MA, which had an exhibit called "Murder He Wrote". The description lists some of Gorey's favorite murder mystery authors: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Georgette Heyer, Josephine Tey, Michael Innes, Margery Allingham, Edmund Crispin, and Cecil Street. I would read another Crispin if I saw one to give him a second change, but I wouldn't seek one out. (BTW, the list of characters on the Main page includes C.S. Lewis; I don't remember meeting him in the story.) no reviews | add a review
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'The Moving Toyshop' is a quirky and appealing locked room mystery for all fans of classic crime. No library descriptions found. |
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About 60% of the way through, there's a big (ridiculous, contrived) plot dump
Overall it's no more than OK. There are better writers of this sort of thing and the attempted humour just falls flat. ( )