{"product_id":"the-man-with-the-dark-beard-9781910570746","title":"The Man with the Dark Beard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Nobody would have murdered him,\" Miss Lavinia cried. \"Everybody liked John \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"I'm afraid it is evident that someone did not.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe note left beside Dr. John Bastow's corpse simply read: \u003cem\u003e\"It was the man with the dark beard.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Bastow hadn't approved of his daughter Hilary's fiancE. So when Hilary's father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiancE Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect for Scotland Yard. Yet how could the crime have been engineered?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow an important lacquered box is missing; a former colleague of Bastow's has suddenly shaved his beard; and the doctor's ex-secretary has come mysteriously into money. Before Inspector Stoddart of the Yard can form conclusions, another murder takes place, again credited to the \"Man with The Dark Beard..\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man With the Dark Beard\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of Annie Haynes' Inspector Stoddart mysteries, originally published in 1928. It is a sparkling lost classic from the early golden age of crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the best detective story she has yet written.\" \u003cem\u003eTime and Tide\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910570746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.40d","brand":"Annie Haynes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39462769000629,"sku":"9781910570746","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6b21668e-6982-41fe-8223-08f701676fb3.jpg?v=1615921363","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-man-with-the-dark-beard-9781910570746","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}