{"product_id":"the-haunting-hand-9781504093958","title":"The Haunting Hand","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn actress stars in her own off-screen mystery in this Golden Age whodunit from the award-winning Jamaican novelist, poet, and historian.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though originally a medical student specializing in chemistry, twenty-five-year-old Margot Anstruther decides to try her luck as an actress and gets cast in her first role for the Superfilm Company. With the studio's boorish director taking a personal interest in her, Margot finds herself caught in the middle of two men: her boss and her increasingly jealous suitor, Gene Varley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One night, alone in her midtown Manhattan apartment after a party, Margot is shocked to find a hand reaching out from under her bed. Though Gene and the police find no sign of an intruder, Margot refuses to believe in a supernatural cause. She puts her scientific mind to work delving into her apartment's strange past--a recent tenants' disappearance--and walking a fine line between the complicated passions of friends and rivals . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. Adolphe Roberts was a Jamaican-born novelist, poet, and historian. Roberts served as a war correspondent during World War I, after which he acted as the editor of multiple periodicals including \u003ci\u003eAinslee's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and authored more than a dozen books. He died in 1962. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mysteriouspress.Com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929224712466,"sku":"9781504093958","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f0b36a5f-8730-4036-b4fb-fbe5cb3602a3.jpg?v=1739036145","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-haunting-hand-9781504093958","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}