{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poisoned Pen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781464203732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charles Kingston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43040255017141,"sku":"9781464203732","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a7c1f49b-20a7-4391-9b94-8fc62f3b4bec.jpg?v=1689087982","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/murder-in-piccadilly-9781464203732","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}