The Moving Toyshop

Description

Named by P.D. James as one of the best five mysteries of all time. Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the door unlocked; surely the owner should be alerted. And so Cadogan slips into the darkened store and up the narrow stairway to the apartment above. But rather than a snoring toyman, he finds a very dead old lady, the marks of murder still livid on her neck. But when Cadogan returns with the coppers, the toyshop...has disappeared. This, it seems, is a matter for Gervase Fen.

First Sentence

Richard Cadogan raised his revolver.

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Moving ToyshopTextbook BindingHarperCollins1946-06-01
• The moving toyshopGollancz1946-01-01
• The moving toyshopPenguin1958-01-01
• Moving ToyshopOrion Publishing Group, Limited1969-01-01
• The moving toyshop.Penguin1971-01-01
• The Moving ToyshopPenguin (Non-Classics)1977-06-30