The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin
I saw this on a best underrated mysteries list somewhere and requested it at the library. I think it’s out of print—I got the last copy in the entire NYPL system, which always amuses me. Luckily for anyone else who might want to read it, I returned it and it’s still available.
This isn’t much of a mystery. Solving the crime never seems very interesting or very complicated. What it does have is lots of romping about Oxford. Which I am always amused by, my interest in old English universities being very similar to my fascination with British boarding school. So that was good fun, but I definitely wouldn’t consider this a great mystery.
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