“The Moving Toyshop” by Edmund Crispin

“The Moving Toyshop” is a charmingly funny book about the adventure of Richard Cadogan, a prominent poet, in Oxford in 1938. On his arrival he finds a body of an elderly woman in a toyshop, but gets a strong hit on the top of the head. Once he recovers to fetch the police, he can’t find either the body or the toyshop itself. There is a grocery there instead, and the interior is quite different from what he remembers. No wonder the police think he imagined it all as the result of the concussion.
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