{"product_id":"2940013698895","title":"THE PROFESSOR'S MYSTERY (Illustrated)","description":"Wells Hastings and Brian Hooker, authors of \"The Professor's Mystery\", tells a cleverly constructed story of love and puzzlement, in which a spiritualist medium plays an important part. The mystery is psychological and hangs upon the abnormal obsession, amounting to threatened insanity, of the heroine's mother that marriage is fatal, destructive, bound to result in death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the sort of novel that is meant to be read for its story only and meant to be taken at a gulp— the sort there is no reason for thinking about afterward, although it may afford entertainment while it is being read. It is told in the person of the professor himself, who seems to have been, at the time of the events he relates, a remarkably young and irresponsible kind of person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut from the time he flings aside a cross-Atlantic journey upon which he had started because he sees a girl he knows sitting in a train headed the other way, until he tells the girl's mother, notwithstanding her fanatical ideas upon the subject, that they are going to be married, he is never daunted—though he is sometimes \"peeved,\" as Togo would put it—by the dizzy procession of astounding things that happen to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to utilize it. A capable man on earth is more valuable than any precious deposit under the earth, and the object of a much more vigilant search.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079651377392,"sku":"2940013698895","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013698895_p0.jpg?v=1763584526","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013698895","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}