{"product_id":"2940013740327","title":"The Mystery of Angelina Frood","description":"It takes a good deal to surprise a really seasoned medical practitioner,\u003cbr\u003eand still more to arouse in him an abiding curiosity. But at the time\u003cbr\u003ewhen I took charge of Dr. Humphrey's practice in Osnaburgh-street,\u003cbr\u003eRegent's Park, I was far from being a seasoned practitioner, having, in\u003cbr\u003efact, been qualified little more than a year, in which short period I\u003cbr\u003ehad not yet developed the professional immunity from either of the above\u003cbr\u003emental states. Hence the singular experience which I am about to relate\u003cbr\u003enot only made a deep impression on me at the time, but remained with me\u003cbr\u003efor long after as a matter of curious speculation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was close upon midnight, indeed an adjacent church clock had already\u003cbr\u003estruck the third quarter, when I laid aside my book and yawned\u003cbr\u003eprofoundly, without prejudice to the author who had kept me so long from\u003cbr\u003emy bed. Then I rose and stretched myself, and was in the act of knocking\u003cbr\u003ethe long-extinct ashes out of my pipe when the bell rang. As the\u003cbr\u003eservants had gone to bed, I went out to the door, congratulating myself\u003cbr\u003eon having stayed up beyond my usual bedtime, but wishing the visitor at\u003cbr\u003ethe devil all the same. The opening of the door gave me a view of a wet\u003cbr\u003estreet with a drizzle of rain falling, a large closed car by the kerb,\u003cbr\u003eand a tallish man on the doorstep, apparently about to renew his attack\u003cbr\u003eon the bell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Pumphrey?\" he asked; and by that token I gathered that he was a\u003cbr\u003estranger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No,\" I answered; \"he is out of town, but I am looking after his\u003cbr\u003epractice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very well,\" he said, somewhat brusquely. \"I want you to come and see a\u003cbr\u003elady who has been suddenly taken ill. She has had a rather severe\u003cbr\u003eshock.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you mean a mental or a physical shock?\" I asked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, I should say mental,\" he replied, but so inconclusively that I\u003cbr\u003epressed him for more definite particulars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Has she sustained any injuries?\" I inquired.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No,\" he answered, but still indecisively. \"No; that is, so far as I\u003cbr\u003eknow. I think not.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No wound, for instance?\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070198104304,"sku":"2940013740327","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013740327_p0.jpg?v=1763589600","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013740327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}