{"product_id":"murder-in-piccadilly-9781464203732","title":"Murder in Piccadilly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is another entry in the attractive, period-style paperbacks in the British Library Crime Classics series. Pair \u003cem\u003eMurder in Piccadilly \u003c\/em\u003ewith Freeman Wills Crofts' \u003cem\u003eAntidote to Venom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ealso notable for its psychological acuity and also available in the same series.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly--and for Nancy's dreams to be realised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis good-natured vintage mystery novel is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards, the leading expert on inter-war detective fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHARLES KINGSTON \u003c\/strong\u003e(1884-1944) wrote over twenty crime novels in the golden age of British crime fiction between the two world wars. Many of his books--including \u003cem\u003ePoison in Kensington\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Highgate Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e--are set in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556750004498,"sku":"9781464203732","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5f63a1a-9054-4fa9-926d-ac424d09bb7d.jpg?v=1731763372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/murder-in-piccadilly-9781464203732","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}