{"product_id":"2940013081154","title":"THE DAFFODIL MYSTERY","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I. AN OFFER REJECTED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      II. THE HUNTER DECLINES HIS QUARRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. THE MAN WHO LOVED LYNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IV. MURDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       V. FOUND IN LYNE'S POCKET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VI. THE MOTHER OF ODETTE RIDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. THE WOMAN IN THE CASE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. THE SILENCING OF SAM STAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX. WHERE THE FLOWERS CAME FROM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       X. THE WOMAN AT ASHFORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XI. \"THORNTON LYNE IS DEAD\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII. THE HOSPITAL BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. TWO SHOTS IN THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIV. THE SEARCH OF MILBURGH'S COTTAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XV. THE OWNER OF THE PISTOL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVI. THE HEIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVII. THE MISSING REVOLVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII. THE FINGER PRINTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIX. LING CHU TELLS THE TRUTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XX. MR. MILBURGH SEES IT THROUGH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXI. COVERING THE TRAIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXII. THE HEAVY WALLET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII. THE NIGHT VISITOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIV. THE CONFESSION OF ODETTE RIDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXV. MILBURGH'S LAST BLUFF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXVI. IN MRS. RIDER'S ROOM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXVII. THE LAUGH IN THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII. THE THUMB-PRINT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIX. THE THEORY OF LING CHU\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXX. WHO KILLED MRS. RIDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXXI. SAM STAY TURNS UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXXII. THE DIARY OF THORNTON LYNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII. LING CHU--TORTURER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIV. THE ARREST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXXV. MILBURGH'S STORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXXVI. AT HIGHGATE CEMETERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVII. LING CHU RETURNS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER THE LAST. THE STATEMENT OF SAM STAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DAFFODIL MYSTERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN OFFER REJECTED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOdette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open\u003cbr\u003edesk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in\u003cbr\u003ethe sober depths of those grey eyes of hers a light which would have\u003cbr\u003ewarned a man less satisfied with his own genius and power of persuasion\u003cbr\u003ethan Thornton Lyne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was not looking at her face. His eyes were running approvingly over\u003cbr\u003eher perfect figure, noting the straightness of the back, the fine poise\u003cbr\u003eof the head, the shapeliness of the slender hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe pushed back his long black hair from his forehead and smiled. It\u003cbr\u003epleased him to believe that his face was cast in an intellectual mould,\u003cbr\u003eand that the somewhat unhealthy pastiness of his skin might be described\u003cbr\u003eas the \"pallor of thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresently he looked away from her through the big bay window which\u003cbr\u003eoverlooked the crowded floor of Lyne's Stores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had had this office built in the entresol and the big windows had been\u003cbr\u003eput in so that he might at any time overlook the most important\u003cbr\u003edepartment which it was his good fortune to control.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069750460656,"sku":"2940013081154","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013081154_p0.jpg?v=1763576282","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013081154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}