{"product_id":"the-day-the-whimsy-died-9781947039070","title":"The Day the Whimsy Died","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome mysteries can only be solved in the key of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's been three months since Dekker Kohl, Trovatore for the Columbus Conservatory, wrote a note worth keeping. He calls it a dry spell. He doesn't yet know it's a symptom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe signs are everywhere. Singers losing their pitch mid-phrase. Composers staring at pages that won't fill. Jazz clubs locked in a minor key they can't escape. Something is draining the city of its creative soul. And it's leaving bodies behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a fellow musician is found strangled with a violin string, Dekker is the only one who can hear the harmonic echoes left at the scene. But the investigation pulls him into a conspiracy older and stranger than murder: the systematic destruction of Whimsy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a six-legged witness as his only lead and his own magic failing, Dekker must decode a final, impossible composition before the music stops for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the world won't end without Whimsy. It'll just stop being worth living in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Swordistry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947039070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Tim a. Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472984404149,"sku":"9781947039070","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a154e412-e29b-4d80-a0bb-eeb703278d09.jpg?v=1777444929","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-day-the-whimsy-died-9781947039070","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}