The Moving Toyshop - A Gervaise Fen Mystery

The first books in a new series of golden age crime novels from Harper Collins, these detective novels featuring sleuth and Oxford professor Gevase Fen were first published in the 1940s. With a classic, collectable design.

About the author

Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci–fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978.

Summary

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Crispin
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9780008124120
• ISBN: 978-0-00-812412-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Series: A Gervase Fen Mystery; A Gervase Fen Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Oxfordshire, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Classic crime, Crime & mystery fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Classic crime and mystery fiction, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)