{"product_id":"2940013374690","title":"MONSIEUR LECOQ","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt about eleven o'clock in the evening of the 20th of February, 186--,\u003cbr\u003ewhich chanced to be Shrove Sunday, a party of detectives left the police\u003cbr\u003estation near the old Barriere d'Italie to the direct south of Paris.\u003cbr\u003eTheir mission was to explore the district extending on the one hand\u003cbr\u003ebetween the highroad to Fontainebleau and the Seine, and on the other\u003cbr\u003ebetween the outer boulevards and the fortifications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable\u003cbr\u003ereputation. To venture there at night was considered so dangerous\u003cbr\u003ethat the soldiers from the outlying forts who came in to Paris with\u003cbr\u003epermission to go to the theatre, were ordered to halt at the barriere,\u003cbr\u003eand not to pass through the perilous district excepting in parties of\u003cbr\u003ethree or four.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter midnight, these gloomy, narrow streets became the haunt of\u003cbr\u003enumerous homeless vagabonds, and escaped criminals and malefactors,\u003cbr\u003emoreover, made the quarter their rendezvous. If the day had been a lucky\u003cbr\u003eone, they made merry over their spoils, and when sleep overtook them,\u003cbr\u003ehid in doorways or among the rubbish in deserted houses. Every effort\u003cbr\u003ehad been made to dislodge these dangerous guests, but the most energetic\u003cbr\u003emeasures had failed to prove successful. Watched, hunted, and in\u003cbr\u003eimminent danger of arrest though they were, they always returned with\u003cbr\u003eidiotic obstinacy, obeying, as one might suppose, some mysterious law\u003cbr\u003eof attraction. Hence, the district was for the police an immense trap,\u003cbr\u003econstantly baited, and to which the game came of their own accord to be\u003cbr\u003ecaught.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145630662896,"sku":"2940013374690","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013374690_p0.jpg?v=1763580401","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013374690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}