{"product_id":"the-yellow-room-conspiracy-a-crime-novel-9781504003476","title":"The Yellow Room Conspiracy: A Crime Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"exceptional\" British mystery by a Gold Dagger winner, an aging aristocrat and her longtime lover explore the dark events of their shared past (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lady Lucy Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears on the radio reminds her of her younger, darker days and inspires her to question her dearest friend and former lover, Paul Ackerley, about his role in a series of past family tragedies. There was the strange death of Lucy's brother-in-law, the brute Gerry Grantworth, in the Yellow Room of Blatchards--the huge and ugly Vereker estate--and the subsequent destruction by fire of the sprawling manor house. And then there was the infamous Seddon Affair, the sordid scandal that rocked Great Britain in the midst of the Suez Crisis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Surprised to hear that the woman he has always loved suspects him to be the culprit behind these events--especially since he always assumed Lucy herself helped engineer them--Paul suggests that they each record their memories and compare them. By doing so, perhaps they will both find their way to the long-hidden and terrible truth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Told through an alternating series of memories and flashbacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Room Conspiracy \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly re-creates a post-war era and a world of privilege corrupted by greed, jealousy, lust, and lies. The astonishing Peter Dickinson, one of Britain's greatest suspense novelists of the late twentieth century, ingeniously wraps a love story around a mystery and once again solidifies his position alongside luminaries such as P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesey, and Reginald Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Media Mystery \u0026amp; Thri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781504003476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.57d","brand":"Peter Dickinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36655175434396,"sku":"9781504003476","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2aba5ba-1aaa-48f0-92e1-8a88e507d26c.jpg?v=1603884922","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-yellow-room-conspiracy-a-crime-novel-9781504003476","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}