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The Moving Toyshop (1946) is a work of detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English...

of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (1966) and played Sally Carstairs in their version of Edmund Crispin's detective novel The Moving Toyshop (1964). Other television...

novels to break the fourth wall occasionally and speak directly to the audience. Perhaps the best example is from The Moving Toyshop, during a chase sequence –...

2012). "Armchair Audience: The Moving Toyshop (1946)". Retrieved May 25, 2013. Crispin, Edmund (2007) [1946]. The Moving Toyshop. Vintage. pp. 195–200. ISBN 9780099506225...

for parts of The Moving Toyshop and Swan Song. The imaginary college of St Christopher's is located at the junction of St Giles and the Banbury Road in...

Edmund Crispin's first Gervase Fen novel, 'The Moving Toyshop,' puts the climax of a riotous chase at the entrance to Parson's Pleasure. Anthony Gibbs's...

Auguste Dupin.) "Detective: The Moving Toyshop". BBC Programme Index. 30 March 1964. Retrieved June 19, 2023. "Detective: The Drawing". BBC Programme Index...

the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The...

Victoria Vanishes has deliberate similarities with The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin. Although the books appear to have bizarre, uncanny elements, they...

Toyshop (Edmund Crispin, 1946) 1950-89 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis, 1950) – first book in The Chronicles of Narnia series The Lord...

Crispin (1946) The Moving Toyshop). Bumpers for a bumps race in rowing was in use at both Oxford and Cambridge from about the turn of the 20th century and...

because they allow the author greater licence for invention and a reduced risk of being accused of libel, as might happen if the author depicted unsavory...

at the Yard Uneasy Terms Agatha Christie – The Hollow A. E. Coppard – Fearful Pleasures Edmund Crispin – The Moving Toyshop Kenneth Fearing – The Big...

novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. It the second in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. The novel is...

described the novel as less good than Crispin's The Moving Toyshop, "being rather too much bogged down with the mechanics of suspicion-casting to achieve total...

novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the fourth in his series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen. It was the first in a...

displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Harley, Basil (1978). Toyshop Steam. Argus Books. ISBN 0-85242-583-X. GB patent 20081, Thomas Piot, "Improvement...

guitarist. The last gig by Mabel Greer's Toyshop was on 27 July, at Newmarket. Having considered the experience of Mabel Greer's Toyshop concluded, the group...

reissued 2019) Blacklist (1988) Toyshop (1990) An Air That Kills (1994) The Mortal Sickness (1995) The Lover of the Grave (1997) The Suffocating Night (1998)...

Toys Is Me (a play on Toys R Us). The set dressing for the toyshop included appropriate labels. The Death of Rats was credited as played by "Dorckey Hellmice"...