The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin
Taste attributes: mysterydetectivecomedyfresh & originalintricatelinearenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemsrescue/escape/jeopardy
Boxlist takeIntricate and contained: a mystery that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.7 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Edmund Crispin
- Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 224
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- Open Library
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