{"product_id":"2940013668263","title":"The Return of Bulldog Drummond","description":"Slowly but relentlessly the mist was creeping over the moor. It moved in\u003cbr\u003elittle eddies; then it would make a surge forward like a great silent\u003cbr\u003ewave breaking on the shore and not receding. One by one the landmarks\u003cbr\u003ewere blotted out, until only some of the highest tors stuck up like\u003cbr\u003erugged islands from a sea of white.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs yet it had not reached Merridale Hall, which stood on highish ground,\u003cbr\u003esome hundred yards from the main road to Yelverton, though already it was\u003cbr\u003edrifting sluggishly round the base of the little hill on which the house\u003cbr\u003ewas built. Soon it would be covered: it would become a place cut off from\u003cbr\u003ethe outside world, a temporary prison of stones and mortar whose\u003cbr\u003eoccupants must perforce rely upon themselves. And it is possible that a\u003cbr\u003edreamer standing at the smoking--room window, and gazing over the\u003cbr\u003ebillowing landscape of cotton wool, might have pondered on the different\u003cbr\u003edramas even then being enacted in all the other isolated dwellings.\u003cbr\u003eStrange stories of crime, of passion; tragedies of hate and love; queer\u003cbr\u003efigments of imagination would perhaps have passed in succession through\u003cbr\u003ehis mind, always provided that the dreamer was deaf. For if possessed of\u003cbr\u003enormal hearing, the only possible idea that could have occupied his brain\u003cbr\u003ewould have been how to preserve it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwice already had the butler entered, only to retire defeated from the\u003cbr\u003escene. The cook, who had been trying to obtain a little well--earned rest\u003cbr\u003eherself, had then advanced into the hall and dropped a fusillade of\u003cbr\u003esaucepans one after another on the tiled floor without the slightest\u003cbr\u003esuccess. And finally, in despair, the staff had barricaded itself in the\u003cbr\u003epantry and turned on the gramophone.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169855488240,"sku":"2940013668263","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013668263_p0.jpg?v=1763583700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013668263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}