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[Books 2009] The Moving Toyshop
Mar. 29th, 2009 04:32 pm16. The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
Picked this up in a charity shop some time ago. It's a very silly mystery in which a poet finds a body in a toyshop in 1938 Oxford; a few hours later both the body and the shop are gone! Fortunately, his friend the professor of English (who drives an improbably noisy and fast car) is on the case.
You can only take a book where the solution revolves around the limericks of Edmund Lear so seriously - which is about as seriously as it's meant to be taken!
I read this on the bus, which it's perfect for - entertaining enough, but not so compelling that it worms its way into "serious reading at home" time. Very good fun.
Picked this up in a charity shop some time ago. It's a very silly mystery in which a poet finds a body in a toyshop in 1938 Oxford; a few hours later both the body and the shop are gone! Fortunately, his friend the professor of English (who drives an improbably noisy and fast car) is on the case.
You can only take a book where the solution revolves around the limericks of Edmund Lear so seriously - which is about as seriously as it's meant to be taken!
I read this on the bus, which it's perfect for - entertaining enough, but not so compelling that it worms its way into "serious reading at home" time. Very good fun.
