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🔎 The Plot
Poet Richard Cadogan arrives in Oxford for a change of scenery—and stumbles into a nightmare: a strangled woman in a toyshop after midnight. He’s knocked out, locked in, and when he returns with police the next morning, the corpse is gone…and the toyshop has somehow become a greengrocer’s.

Enter Gervase Fen, irrepressible Oxford don and amateur sleuth, who drags Cadogan into a whirlwind hunt through colleges, canals, and bookshops for a missing shop, a missing body, and a murderer with a flair for misdirection. Car chases, cryptic clues, and academic shenanigans build to a gloriously madcap reveal.

🧨 The Hook
A locked-room–adjacent puzzle with fizzing wit: the crime scene moves, the city becomes a maze, and every clue lands with a grin.

3 Reasons To Add This To Your TBR

1. Oxford as Playground: Cloisters, quads, and cobbled lanes turn into a high-speed obstacle course for clue-hunters.
2. Gervase Fen’s Chaos Magic: Brilliant, cheeky, and unstoppable—Fen turns deduction into delightful mayhem.
3. Fair-Play Fun: Cryptograms, wordplay, and tidy motives click together in a finale that feels both clever and inevitable.

For readers who crave sparkling British humor, zippy pacing, and a mystery that’s equal parts brain and belly laugh, The Moving Toyshop is a joyride.

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