Friday, October 1, 2010

Edmund Crispin "The Moving Toyshop"

The toy store on the move  is a charming and funny adventure book by Richard Cadogan, a leading poet in Oxford in 1938. Upon arrival he met a body of an elderly woman in a toy store, but gets a slap on the crown. Once he takes for the police to find the can not take the body or their toy store. There is a supermarket in force, and the interior is very different from what he remembers. No wonder the police think he had presented as the result of a concussion.


But his old friend Gervase Fen, Professor and eccentric owner of a car called Lily Christine, fast, but disobedience, not willing to dismiss the story as a dream Cadogan. He knows it's true - and he knows it is something dirty going on. Together, they begin to investigate. 
The police can not - instead, after the two friends, because of stolen meat from Cadogan chance when he have visited the scene of the crime.
Two foreigners, but men also claim to compensation, and, again, a beautiful girl pursued by a dog. They find themselves in difficult conditions, but also fun, the situations more than once, Get Physical, saving the cute girl claims the two men were shot to death by a hair's breadth saved as one of the suspects were prepared to say anything, but dies before he can do - and every time they make me laugh. One by one, the participants learn in the drama of the night in the mysterious disappearance toy store, and even the location was moved to the toy - but do not yet know the name of the assassin. And when they realize that there is still the question of  how  - but before it is answered, there is an interesting description of persecution with another bike, a car, a large number of plants and a roundabout.
 Then, finally, everything goes well, the murders are explained (even if some data is not less important - for example, I still do not understand how a man was completely drunk ... but I will not say more;)). Two good people inherit a fortune (but not the real heroes, Fen and Cadogan - these two but nothing, not even a real recognition of their services). All the bad guys arrested. All decent people - with the exception of the first victim, Miss Tardy - the adventure must be intact, even if they do not inherit a fortune, his happiness. They meet and date of poetry ...


When I finished the book left an impression of grotesque or ghostly. It feels like a parody, but this is not the intention. The writing style makes me suspect that the author would be considered improper to write a simple sentence, the laughter after each word. According to Kate Fox, the English defined, so I think that  toy store in movement, a book in English are referred to the core. Also, because many books in the English language spoken there, which I never heard. is now, you should probably avoid that these  unreadable books  listed in the Fen Cadogan game and play while in a closet with his arms and legs to be locked securely. I hate books unreadable.


As a thriller, but could be better. The mystery was pretty good, but the explanation a little too simple and therefore a little disappointing. the ashes of cigarettes and various other things: This could be the fact that quite different personalities rather unpleasant Fen continue the process of pure thought, or at least the collection of evidence to be explained. But the book I was rather encouraged.


Irina Ponomareva has a passion for books in English even though his mother tongue is Russian. It records his impressions of the books he has read in his blog, said foreign readers and writes about his life and his thoughts on his blog Saitiria.