The Moving Toyshop. Edmund Crispin
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EDMUND CRISPIN
The Moving Toyshop
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First published in Great Britain by
Victor Gollancz 1946
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1946. All rights reserved
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Source ISBN: 9780008124120
Ebook Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 9780008124137
Version: 2017-10-27
For Philip Larkin in friendship and esteem
Contents
Chapter 1: The Episode of the Prowling Poet
Chapter 2: The Episode of the Dubious Don
Chapter 3: The Episode of the Candid Solicitor
Chapter 4: The Episode of the Indignant Janeite
Chapter 5: The Episode of the Immaterial Witness
Chapter 6: The Episode of the Worthy Carman
Chapter 7: The Episode of the Nice Young Lady
Chapter 8: The Episode of the Eccentric Millionairess
Chapter 9: The Episode of the Malevolent Medium
Chapter 10: The Episode of the Interrupted Seminar
Chapter 11: The Episode of the Neurotic Physician
Chapter 12: The Episode of the Missing Link
Chapter 13: The Episode of the Rotating Professor
Chapter 14: The Episode of the Prescient Satirist
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters