The British author Edmund Crispin belongs to the Golden Age of detective fiction, and his works are considered classics of British crime literature. The protagonist of all nine of Crispin's novels is Gervase Fen, an eccentric Oxford professor of English language and literature with a penchant for solving crimes. ‘The Moving Toyshop’ is the third novel featuring Gervase Fen's investigations. The poet Richard Cadogan, visiting Oxford, accidentally discovers the body of an elderly woman in a toy shop. However, the police, arriving at the scene, couldn't find either the body or even the toy shop itself.