{"product_id":"jack-and-the-beanstalk-9781612181943","title":"Jack and the Beanstalk","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal--until Jack's found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe backwoods seller wants his forty grand \u003ci\u003epronto\u003c\/i\u003e, but nobody can find the cash. And when Matthew pays a visit to the McKinney ranch, he gets more than he bargained for. Jack's mother, Veronica, is a woman who looks half her years, with cool gray eyes to match her ambivalent attitude toward her son's death. The only thing more dangerous than Veronica is daughter Sunny, the mirror image of her mother and a girl who can hold her liquor. Everyone seems to have a theory about the missing money, but Matthew's the only one who can get to the bottom of the bum deal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth installment of Ed McBain's Matthew Hope Mysteries, \u003ci\u003eJack and the Beanstalk\u003c\/i\u003e delivers our lawyer into a world of seedy folks, sour deals, and a family gone afoul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas \u0026amp; Mercer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612181943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Ed McBain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51707967373493,"sku":"9781612181943","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1691c850-0f77-4dfd-812d-bafd73103cb4.jpg?v=1757396873","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jack-and-the-beanstalk-9781612181943","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}