{"product_id":"snatched-9781847515117","title":"Snatched","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBill James is on top form in this sharply satirical black comedy set behind the scenes at a museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorge Lepage, the new Director of the Hulliborn Regional Museum and Gallery, has great hopes that his tenure in the post will be short and profitable. He has visions of early retirement, and perhaps - like his predecessor, and his predecessor's predecessor - a knighthood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut circumstances do their best to snatch his happy dreams away from him. First a deranged former staff member causes a riot in the Folk Department, and then three recently purchased, ruinously expensive paintings of dubious authenticity are stolen, putting the museum's security - and judgement - into question. The fate of the upcoming Japanese Ancient Surgical Skills exhibition, and its astonishing collection of tonsil excision implements, hangs dangerously in the balance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd over everything hangs the grim specter of the former Director, \"Flounce\" Butler-Minton, whose body may be most definitely dead but whose legacy lives on. And with every day that passes, the rumours of what Flounce did behind the Iron Curtain - and how the haversack straps, the whippet and the legendary Mrs Cray were involved - grow, threatening to erupt into a scandal that may cost the museum, and Lepage himself, everything . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Severn House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847515117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Bill James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769847746741,"sku":"9781847515117","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_33e30653-962a-4f13-b582-e2bd233503a5.jpg?v=1678839014","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/snatched-9781847515117","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}