Edmund Crispin - GF03 The Moving Toyshop.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Moving Toyshop GF03
Author: Edmund Crispin
Read By: Stephen Thorne
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 7 plus PARS and info
Genre: Mystery/Humour
Bit Rate: 32 KB/s
Sample Rate: 22 KHz mono
Run Time: 06:51 h:m
Size: 94 MB approx!(without Pars)
Story
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Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming spires. Late one night, however, he discovers the dead body of an elderly woman lying in a toyshop and is coshed on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. The police are understandably skeptical of this tale but Richard's former schoolmate, Gervase Fen (Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature), knows that truth is stranger than fiction (in fiction, at least). Soon the intrepid duo is careening around town in hot pursuit of clues but just when they think they understand what has happened, the disappearing-toyshop mystery takes a sharp turn...This book isn't exactly a heavyweight in the burgeoning crime genre. I discovered it quite randomly on a recommendation from a friend, after a slow start I found this book nearly impossible to put down. I do however have a nostalgic love for all things 'English' and i love the 1930's. This book perhaps is a precursor to Morse, what with all the galavanting about Oxford. With two colourful characters both chasing a group of mysterious and muderous people who have benefitted from the will of a dead elderly woman, this book is good fun with no real dark undercurrent. What i really enjoyed was the unusual sounding story - the synopsis sounds a bit surreal to start with, but it all unravels in the end.
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