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4 unusual facts about Edmund Crispin


Edmund Crispin

The Moving Toyshop (1946) was dedicated to Crispin's great friend and fellow admirer of the work of John Dickson Carr, Philip Larkin.

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Gareth Roberts has stated that the tone of his Doctor Who novel The Well-Mannered War was modelled upon Crispin's style.

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Perhaps the best example is from The Moving Toyshop, during a chase sequence – "Let's go left", Cadogan suggested.

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He also remarks (of The Moving Toyshop) that "It's more like Doctor Who than Doctor Who." Christopher Fowler pays homage to The Moving Toyshop in The Victoria Vanishes, his sixth Bryant & May novel.



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