{"product_id":"murder-by-the-book-9780727897008","title":"Murder by the Book","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis brand-new historical mystery series represents an exciting new direction for award-winning science fiction writer Eric Brown.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon, 1955.\u003c\/i\u003e When crime writer Donald Langham's literary agent asks for his help in sorting out 'a delicate matter', little does Langham realize what he's getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as London's literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With three members of the London Crime Writers' Association coming to sudden and violent ends, what at first appeared to be a series of suicides looks suspiciously like murder - and there seems to be something horribly familiar about the various methods of dispatch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the help of his literary agent's assistant, the delectable Maria Dupre, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killer - a killer with old scores to settle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown, Eric:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Twice winner of the British Science Fiction Award, Eric Brown is the author of more than twenty SF novels and several short story collections. Murder by the Book marks his crime writing debut. Born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, he now lives in Scotland.","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460770664722,"sku":"9780727897008","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c45d943-9323-4e0e-9d1c-bfc8edd36b2e.jpg?v=1730048948","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/murder-by-the-book-9780727897008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}