{"product_id":"the-murder-at-redmire-hall-9781503904941","title":"The Murder at Redmire Hall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impossible murder behind a locked door. Can DCI Oldroyd find the key to the mystery?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLord Redmire's gambling habit has placed him in serious debt. Determined to salvage his fortune by putting Redmire Hall on the map, the aristocrat performs an impossible locked-door illusion on live TV. But as the cameras roll, his spectacular trick goes fatally wrong...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial guest DCI Jim Oldroyd has a front-row seat, but in all his years with the West Riding Police he's never witnessed anything like this. He sees Redmire disappear--and then reappear, dead, with a knife in his back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Oldroyd and DS Stephanie Johnson soon discover, nearly everyone at the event had a reason to resent the eccentric lord. But how did the murderer get into the locked room--or out, for that matter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the only other person who knew the secret behind the illusion is brutally silenced, the case begins to look unsolvable. Because as Oldroyd and Johnson know, it's not just a question of \u003ci\u003ewho\u003c\/i\u003e did it and \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e--but \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllis, J. R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire's diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.","brand":"Thomas \u0026 Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492705898770,"sku":"9781503904941","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5400ea55-d16f-4fd1-a915-eac642396250.jpg?v=1730604040","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-murder-at-redmire-hall-9781503904941","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}