{"product_id":"2940013707115","title":"Red Aces: Being Three Cases of Mr Reeder","description":"When a young man is very much in love with a most attractive girl he is\u003cbr\u003eapt to endow her with qualities and virtues which no human being has\u003cbr\u003eever possessed. Yet at rare and painful intervals there enter into his\u003cbr\u003esoul certain wild suspicions, and in these moments he is inclined to\u003cbr\u003econsider the possibility that she may be guilty of the basest treachery\u003cbr\u003eand double dealing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverybody knew that Kenneth McKay was desperately in love. They knew it\u003cbr\u003eat the bank where he spent his days in counting other people's money,\u003cbr\u003eand a considerable amount of his lunch hour writing impassioned and\u003cbr\u003eill-spelt letters to Margot Lynn. His taciturn father, brooding over his\u003cbr\u003evanished fortune in his gaunt riverside house at Marlow, may have\u003cbr\u003eemployed the few moments he gave to the consideration of other people's\u003cbr\u003etroubles in consideration of his son's new interest. Probably he did\u003cbr\u003enot, for George McKay was entirely self-centred and had little thought\u003cbr\u003ebut for the folly which had dissipated the money he had accumulated with\u003cbr\u003esuch care, and the development of fantastical schemes for its recovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenneth went over to Beaconsfield every morning on his noisy motorbike\u003cbr\u003eand came back every night, sometimes very late, because Margot lived in\u003cbr\u003eLondon; they dined together at the cheaper restaurants and sometimes saw\u003cbr\u003ea film. Kenneth was a member of an inexpensive London club which\u003cbr\u003esheltered at least one sympathetic soul. Except for Rufus Machfield, the\u003cbr\u003econfidant in question, he had no friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'And let me advise you not to make any here,' said Rufus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a military-looking man of forty-five, and most people found him\u003cbr\u003erather a bore, for the views which he expressed so vehemently, on all\u003cbr\u003esubjects from politics to religion, which are the opposite ends of the\u003cbr\u003eethical pole, he had acquired that morning from the leading article of\u003cbr\u003ehis favourite daily. Yet he was a genial person--a likeable man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had a luxurious flat in Park Lane, a French valet, a Bentley and no\u003cbr\u003euseful occupation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Leffingham Club is cheap.' he said, 'the food's not bad and it's\u003cbr\u003enear Piccadilly. Against that you have the fact that almost anybody who\u003cbr\u003ehasn't been to prison can become a member--'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The fact that I'm a member--' began Ken.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You're a gentleman and a public school man,' interrupted Mr Machfield\u003cbr\u003esonorously. 'You're not rich, I admit----'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Even I admit that,' said Ken, rubbing his untidy hair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenneth was tall, athletic, as good-looking as a young man need be, or\u003cbr\u003ecan be without losing his head about his face. He had called at the\u003cbr\u003eLeffingham that evening especially to see Rufus and confide his worries.\u003cbr\u003eAnd his worries were enormous. He looked haggard and ill: Mr Machfield\u003cbr\u003ethought it possible that he had not been sleeping very well.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171057058032,"sku":"2940013707115","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013707115_p0.jpg?v=1763584620","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013707115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}