The Moving Toyshop

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448214235

Get Book

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin Pdf

When a poet, Richard Cadogan, receives an unexpected £50 advance from his publisher for his new poetry book, he decides to go to Oxford for a well deserved holiday. The change of scenery and peace of mind is what he needs to recover his inspiration for writing, but little he suspects that what he envisioned as a leisurely time spent on long walks and visiting friends will turn into a mystery solving adventure full of unexpected and dangerous twists. After an eventful train journey, Cadogan arrives in Oxford late at night only to realise that he has forgotten the exact address of his stay. Relying on a distant memory of the place he boarded in years ago he accidentally enters a toyshop where, to his surprise and fright, he finds the dead body of a women. Before he knows he is knocked out and spends his first night of the holidays locked in the backroom of the shop. When he finally recovers from the concussion the body is gone and the toyshop turned mysteriously into a grocery store, and Cadogan himself is accused of trespassing and stealing food. Luckily for the puzzled poet his old university friend, the professor of literature, Gervase Fen is there ready to plunge into the midst of this mystery. The Moving Toyshop, first published in 1946, is Edmund Crispin's most famous novel featuring eccentric amateur detective, Gervase Fen.

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036783904

Get Book

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin Pdf

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448113057

Get Book

Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin Pdf

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY 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. Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world, and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century? Tracking down the answer pleases Fen immensely - only the reader will have a better time. Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful – Before Morse, Oxford’s murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1844083438

Get Book

Magic Toyshop B by Angela Carter Pdf

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479455126

Get Book

The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham Pdf

During WWII, Meg was told her husband had been killed. After the war Meg meets Geoffery and gets engaged. She finally feels like she can let go of the past and be happy again. That is until she starts receiving current photos of a man that looks very much like her dead husband. She turns to Albert and Amanda Campion for help. Meanwhile, the police are searching for an escaped convict who is on a murdering spree. Murders that are connected to Meg's dead husband, and Geoffery has gone missing...

Author : Robert Race
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785004926

Get Book

Making Moving Toys and Automata by Robert Race Pdf

This beautiful book draws on Robert Race's extensive collection of traditional moving toys, looking at the ways the makers have achieved remarkable and varied results, often with very limited resources. Each chapter begins by looking at the mechanisms and materials used in some of these traditional moving toys, goes on to consider possible variations, and describes how to make a related moving toy. It continues, from this basis, to develop a design for an automaton. The book shows that designing and making these simple but wonderfully satisfying mechanical devices is fun, and that good results can be achieved in many different ways, using a variety of materials, tools and equipment such as wood and wire, card and paper, bamboo, string, tin plate and feathers. It exploits, in a simple way, mechanisms such as levers, linkages, cranks and cams. It explores different ways of moving those mechanisms directly by hand, by springs or falling weights, and by the wind. Beautifully illustrated with 117 colour images.

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504088381

Get Book

Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin Pdf

From a British mystery author known as “the master of the whodunnit,” an amateur detective delights in solving murders at an English boys’ school. Prof. Gervase Fen of Oxford University is honored to award the prizes at the Speech Day ceremonies at Castrevenford High School. As it turns out, the headmaster’s selection of the part-time sleuth as a presenter is most fortuitous indeed. For the night before the big event, two of the school’s staff members are murdered . . . Of course, Fen is happy to do some investigating, if only to get more fodder for the crime novel he’s writing. Between the kidnapping, the student romances, and the accidental discovery of a long-lost Shakespearian manuscript, the eccentric Oxford don certainly gets some food for thought. But that’s all in a day’s work for an amateur detective with a penchant for literary allusions and an uncanny knack for solving the unsolvable. Praise for the mysteries of Edmund Crispin “A marvellous comic sense.” —P. D. James, New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series “Master of fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek mystery novels, a blend of John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes, M.R. James, and the Marx Brothers.” —Anthony Boucher, author of the Fergus O’Breen series “An absolute must for devotees of cultivated crime fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews “One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century.” —The Boston Globe “Beneath a formidable exterior he had unsuspected depths of frivolity.” —Philip Larkin, poet and author of A Girl in Winter “One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story.” —The Times (London)

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Ipso Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504048637

Get Book

Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin Pdf

A sleuthing Oxford professor hunts a village blackmailer, in a novel by an author who “combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue, and a touch of hilarity” (The New York Times). In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance, the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful, but Fen soon discovers that appearances can be deceiving: someone in the village has discovered a dark secret and is using it for blackmail. Anyone who comes close to uncovering the blackmailer's identity is swiftly dispatched. As the joys of politics wear off, Fen sets his mind to the mystery—but finds himself caught up in a tangled tale of eccentric psychiatrists, escaped lunatics, beautiful women, and lost heirs . . . “His books are full of high spirits and excellent jokes, with constant literary allusions . . . But at times the mood turns darker, and Crispin is capable of passages of both genuine suspense and ingenious deduction.” —The Daily Telegraph “One of the most literate mystery writers of the twentieth century.” —Boston Globe

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553905137

Get Book

The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler Pdf

It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t exist. Indeed, this case is littered with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives know about the habits of serial killers, the methodology of crime, and the odds of making an arrest. Now, with the public on the verge of panic and their superiors determined to shut the PCU down for good, Detectives Bryant and May must rise to the occasion in defense of two great English traditions—the pub and the Peculiar Crimes Unit. That’s easier said than done. A lost funeral urn, the eighteenth-century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, the Knights Templars, the secret history of pubs, and the discovery of an astounding religious relic may be enough to convince one of the pair to take back his resignation letter. But with Bryant consulting a memory specialist and May encountering a brush with mortality, do the Peculiar Crimes Unit’s two living legends have enough life left to stop a murderous conspiracy…and a deadly cupid targeting one of their own.

Author : Rodney Peppé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Mechanical toys
ISBN : 0237449668

Get Book

Rodney Peppé's Moving Toys by Rodney Peppé Pdf

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448218073

Get Book

Fen Country by Edmund Crispin Pdf

Dandelions, hearing aids, a blood-stained cat, a Leonardo drawing and a corpse with an alibi... Just some of the unusual clues that Professor Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories. Employing a skilful balance of ingenuity and humour, Crispin lays out all the clues. Can you solve the case before Professor Fen? First-published posthumously in 1979, Fen Country is Edmund Crispin's second collection of short stories.

Author : J.A. Jance
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476745022

Get Book

Moving Target by J.A. Jance Pdf

Includes novella "A last goodbye" and excerpt from "Cold betrayal".

Author : Pippa Howes,Ian Howes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mechanical toys
ISBN : 1855854538

Get Book

Making Moving Toys by Pippa Howes,Ian Howes Pdf

Make 30 enchanting moving toys using a variety of craft techniques from papier mache and origami to woodworking and modelling.

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008530556

Get Book

The Long Divorce (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488340305

Get Book

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Anonim Pdf