Front cover of The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, with bold red and black typography on a beige background, Walker Mystery edition.
Copyright page of The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, showing publication details, ISBN, Library of Congress number, and printing history.
Back cover of The Moving Toyshop featuring publisher blurbs and review excerpts praising Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen mysteries.
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Front cover of The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, with bold red and black typography on a beige background, Walker Mystery edition.Copyright page of The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, showing publication details, ISBN, Library of Congress number, and printing history.Back cover of The Moving Toyshop featuring publisher blurbs and review excerpts praising Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen mysteries.

The Moving Toyshop

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Description

Author: Edmund Crispin
Publisher: Walker Publishing Company (Walker Mystery)
Edition: Reprint Edition
Date of Publication: 1981
Place of Publication: New York
Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Page Count: 246
ISBN: 0802754341
Condition: Near Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket, protected in Brodart; clean, unmarked pages; tight binding

Description:
The Moving Toyshop is one of Edmund Crispin’s most celebrated Gervase Fen mysteries and a landmark of postwar British detective fiction. When Fen discovers a body in a toyshop late at night—only to find the shop completely vanished the next morning—the case unfolds into a dazzling exercise in ingenuity, wit, and narrative daring. Crispin blends Golden Age plotting with erudite humor, eccentric characters, and a playful intelligence that sets his work apart from more traditional mysteries. The result is a novel that is both a brilliantly constructed puzzle and a sheer delight to read.

Why We Love This Book / Collector’s Note:
Widely regarded as Crispin’s masterpiece, The Moving Toyshop is frequently cited by critics and fellow writers as one of the most inventive detective novels of the twentieth century. This Walker Mystery hardcover reissue, preserved in a fine Brodart-protected jacket, offers durability and presentation that paperback editions lack, making it a desirable copy for collectors of classic crime fiction.