by Ash » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:47 pm
Finished The Moving Toyshop by Crispin. A poet stumbles in the middle of the night into a toyshop, where he discovers a body. When he returns the next day, the toyshop is gone. As is the body. And the poet suspects that his own sanity has gone too.
Though Crispin has written some "normal" detective novels, this one is a comedy-detective. Looooooot's of coincidences (material witnesses happen to sit behind them in the cafe etc.), quite fun, though. Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is still the funniest parody IMHO.
Got some Japanese books from a Japanese friend yesterday, Darren Shan's Kaiki Circus (freak circus? Don't know the original titel), so probably going to read them, whilst continuing in Dontokoi Choujougenshou.
"Rationality, that was it. No esoteric mumbo jumbo could fool that fellow. Lord, no! His two feet were planted solidly on God's good earth" - Ellery Queen, The Lamp of God