The Moving Toyshop
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- This book should not be confused with Angela Carter's novel The Magic Toyshop.
The Moving Toyshop is a comic crime novel by Edmund Crispin, published in 1946. The novel features the detective and Oxford don, Gervase Fen.
It is dedicated to the poet Philip Larkin, Crispin's contemporary at St. John's College, Oxford. In chapter 10, reference is made to an undergraduate essay called "The Influence of Sir Gawain on Arnold's Empedocles on Etna", about which Fen comments: "Good heavens, that must be Larkin: the most indefatigable searcher out of pointless correspondences the world has ever known."
The final lines of the book quote Pope's The Rape of the Lock:[1]
With varying vanities, from every part,
They shift the moving toyshop of their heart
In 2006 P.D. James picked it as one of her five most riveting crime novels.[2]
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- "The Moving Toyshop entry". FantasticFiction. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/edmund-crispin/moving-toyshop.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
- "The Moving Toyshop entry". ClassicCrimeFiction. http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/crispin-movingtoyshop.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
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