{"product_id":"a-gentlemans-murder-9781942645955","title":"A Gentleman's Murder","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNow in development for television with Endeavor Content\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Huang's impressive debut will delight fans of golden age detective fiction.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dorothy Sayers is alive and well and writing under the name of Christopher Huang.\" --Rhys Bowen, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tuscan Child\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A must read for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry.\" --Daryl Maxwell, Los Angeles Public Library \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Will please fans of both Agatha Christie and Gillian Flynn.\" --Sarah Nivala, Book Soup \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious soldiers-only club in London: The Britannia. But when a gentleman's wager ends with a member stabbed to death, the victim's last words echo in the Lieutenant's head: that he would \"soon right a great wrong from the past.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eric is certain that one of his fellow members is the murderer: but who? Captain Mortimer Wolfe, the soldier's soldier thrice escaped from German custody? Second Lieutenant Oliver Saxon, the brilliant codebreaker? Or Captain Edward Aldershott, the steely club president whose Savile Row suits hide a frightening collision of mustard gas scars? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eric's investigation will draw him far from the marbled halls of the Britannia, to the shadowy remains of a dilapidated war hospital and the heroin dens of Limehouse. And as the facade of gentlemenhood cracks, Eric faces a Matryoshka doll of murder, vice, and secrets pointing not only to the officers of his own club but the very investigator assigned by Scotland Yard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuang, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, where he served his two years of National Service as an Army Signaller. He moved to Canada where he studied Architecture at McGill University in Montreal. Huang currently lives in Montreal. \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman's Murder\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.","brand":"Inkshares","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557238837522,"sku":"9781942645955","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8960821b-8022-4426-a40b-cace5e83b956.jpg?v=1731776013","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-gentlemans-murder-9781942645955","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}