num_pages: 204
description: One night, Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon-vivant, finds the body of an elderly woman in an Oxford toyshop, and is hit on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. A quirky and appealing mystery for fans of classic crime.
language: English
title: The Moving Toyshop
titlecomplete: The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
characters: Gervase Fen, Richard Cadogan
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Humor, Detective, 20th Century, Fiction, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 7044
places: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
series: Gervase Fen
publisher: Vintage Books