The Moving Toyshop: Chapters 1-7
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Edmund Crispin’s The Moving Toyshop is one of David’s favorites, so this conversation touches on why that is, what makes Crispin’s mysteries different, what makes a good mystery novel in general—plus there’s plenty of conversation on some of the funniest lines in the books. Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:05.7 | And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Edmund Christman's novel, The Moving Toy Shop, not to be confused with St. Crispin's Day. |
| 0:20.1 | Right, yeah, yeah. Which is coming up. |
| 0:22.6 | It's coming up. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't do that on purpose. What I did do on purpose, however, |
| 0:27.4 | is put this book after one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, which, of course, we just |
| 0:32.1 | finished reading and discussing. And this is a different, this is a different vibe. |
| 0:37.4 | Very different vibe. This is a book |
| 0:40.7 | and I'm going to turn it over to Heidi and to Sean here in a second to talk about their, |
| 0:45.3 | their first impressions, their experiences with this author. It was published in 1946 by |
| 0:51.2 | Edmund Crispin, who is actually named Robert Bruce Montgomery. |
| 0:56.7 | His pen name was Edmund Crispin, which in my opinion is a great pen name. |
| 1:03.0 | It's just hard enough to say to feel truly literary and just rooted enough to feel like it's not, you know, nonsense. |
| 1:12.7 | But he took it from a mystery novel. |
| 1:15.1 | Right. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:16.5 | We'll talk about that. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, we'll talk about all that in a minute. |
| 1:18.2 | I just want to say he wrote a number of books, including two that I have with me here today. |
| 1:25.9 | Beware of the Trains, which is a book of short stories featuring |
| 1:29.4 | Gervasi, Fen, our detective, |
| 1:32.6 | and then holy disorders. |
| 1:34.9 | And since we're going to laugh a lot during this discussion, |
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