{"product_id":"2940013172630","title":"THE HOLLOW NEEDLE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. The Shot\u003cbr\u003e   II. Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy\u003cbr\u003e  III. The Corpse\u003cbr\u003e   IV. Face to Face\u003cbr\u003e    V. On the Track\u003cbr\u003e   VI. An Historic Secret\u003cbr\u003e  VII. The Treatise of the Needle\u003cbr\u003e VIII. From Caesar to Lupin\u003cbr\u003e   IX. Open, Sesame!\u003cbr\u003e    X. The Treasures of the Kings of France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHOT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymonde listened. The noise was repeated twice over, clearly enough to\u003cbr\u003ebe distinguished from the medley of vague sounds that formed the great\u003cbr\u003esilence of the night and yet too faintly to enable her to tell whether\u003cbr\u003eit was near or far, within the walls of the big country-house, or\u003cbr\u003eoutside, among the murky recesses of the park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe rose softly. Her window was half open: she flung it back wide. The\u003cbr\u003emoonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against\u003cbr\u003ewhich the straggling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic\u003cbr\u003eoutlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and\u003cbr\u003eshreds of flying buttresses. A light breeze hovered over the face of\u003cbr\u003ethings, gliding noiselessly through the bare motionless branches of the\u003cbr\u003etrees, but shaking the tiny budding leaves of the shrubs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, suddenly, she heard the same sound again. It was on the left and\u003cbr\u003eon the floor below her, in the living rooms, therefore, that occupied\u003cbr\u003ethe left wing of the house. Brave and plucky though she was, the girl\u003cbr\u003efelt afraid. She slipped on her dressing gown and took the matches","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079212187888,"sku":"2940013172630","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013172630_p0.jpg?v=1763577766","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013172630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}