{"product_id":"the-moving-toyshop-folio-society-2176","title":"The Moving Toyshop","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin. Introduced by P. D. James. Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations by A. Richard Allen. Printed map endpapers. Quarter-bound in buckram with Modigliani paper sides, printed and blocked with a design by A. Richard Allen. 208pp. 9x5¾in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop is a comic detective novel featuring the eccentric Oxford don and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen. Poet Richard Cadogan arrives in Oxford late at night and enters an apparently abandoned toyshop, where he discovers the body of an elderly woman. When he returns with the police, both the body and the toyshop itself seem to have vanished.  Cadogan turns to Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, and the pair are drawn into an increasingly strange investigation involving missing evidence, eccentric suspects and a puzzle that seems to defy ordinary explanation. Crispin combines classic mystery plotting with literary humour, surreal situations and a lively portrait of Oxford, creating one of the best-known novels of the Golden Age tradition without giving away the solution to its central mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216609624403,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421239099731,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1085\/2951\/6883\/files\/2176.jpg?v=1792532664","url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/the-moving-toyshop-folio-society-2176","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}