{"product_id":"2940013448636","title":"The Murder of Tom Bombadil","description":"Tom Bomdrill had dealt with the joke all his life. \"Tom Bombadil\" he was called since grade school, after the name of the character in 'Lord of the Rings'.\u003cbr\u003eTom embraced the nick-name, even running his life round the strange stanza'd poem.\u003cbr\u003eBut forty years of marriage can change a man.\u003cbr\u003eEven a normal man like Tom Bomdrill.\u003cbr\u003eOne August day, taking one barb too many from his wife, in a moment of passioned rage, he murders her.\u003cbr\u003eFor days he sits with the body in the bedroom, haunted by the sight of his dead wife, and the mutated echoes of JRR Tolkein's poetry in his head.\u003cbr\u003eWrapped up in his own guilt, he does not see any of the strangeness around him.\u003cbr\u003eHe decides to walk to the local police station and report the crime, but the simple act does not go exactly to plan.....\u003cbr\u003eWhen the police can't find a body, something is wrong with the world somehow.","brand":"Ian Hall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073731051760,"sku":"2940013448636","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013448636_p0.jpg?v=1763581461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013448636","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}