The Moving Toyshop

:"This book should not be confused with Angela Carter's novel" The Magic Toyshop."The Moving Toyshop" is a comic crime novel by Edmund Crispin, published in 1946. It remains in print over sixty years later. P.D. James, naming it one of the five greatest crime novels of all time [http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008466] , writes, "Edmund Crispin is one of the few mystery writers able to combine situation comedy and high spirits with detection. "The Moving Toyshop" is set in Oxford—a popular city for mystery writers—and has as its detective an eccentric amateur, Gervase Fen, a professor of English at the university. A murder is discovered in a toyshop, but when the police arrive the shop itself has disappeared. Suspension of disbelief is occasionally needed, but this spirited frolic of a detective story retains its place as one of the most engaging and ingenious mysteries of its age."

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*cite book | title=The Moving Toyshop | last=Crispin | first=Edmund | authorlink=Edmund Crispin | publisher=Gollancz | location=London | edition=1st ed. | date=1946 | id=NA
*cite web | title=The Moving Toyshop entry | last= | first= | work=FantasticFiction | url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/edmund-crispin/moving-toyshop.htm | date= | accessdate=2007-11-01
*cite web | title=The Moving Toyshop entry | last= | first= | work=ClassicCrimeFiction | url=http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/crispin-movingtoyshop.htm | date= | accessdate=2007-11-01
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url = http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008466
work = The Five Best
publisher = The Wall Street Journal
date = 2006-06-03
accessdate = 2007-11-05
*cite news
first = Isaac
last = Anderson
title = The Moving Toy Shop (review)
url = http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10C13FE3A5D177A93CAA91789D95F428485F9
format = PDF, fee required
work = Criminals at Large
publisher = The New York Times
page = 196
date = 1946-12-08
accessdate = 2007-11-05 Original New York Times review.
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first = Allen
last = Hubin
title = Criminals at Large (column)
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page = BR12
date = 1968-06-02
accessdate = 2007-11-05 The Times' mystery reviewer's comments on his list of all-time favourites.
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publisher = The New York Times Book Review
page = BR12
date = 1977-06-12
accessdate = 2007-11-05 Brief review on the occasion of the book's republication
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title = Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books
publisher =Carroll & Graf, Inc.
date = November 1987
location =New York
isbn =978-0881843453