{"product_id":"2940013750951","title":"The Man at the Carlton","description":"There was a man named Harry Stone (also called Harry the Valet), who was\u003cbr\u003ea detective until they found him out, which was about three months after\u003cbr\u003ehe had entered the C.I.D. of a police force in Rhodesia. He might have\u003cbr\u003ebeen prosecuted, but at that time this particular police force was not at\u003cbr\u003eall anxious to expose the dishonesty of its officers, so that when he got\u003cbr\u003eaway by the night mail to Cape Town they took no trouble to call him\u003cbr\u003eback.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry went south with about three hundred ill-gotten pounds in the hope\u003cbr\u003eof meeting Lew Daney, who was a good trooper and a great, if unfortunate,\u003cbr\u003eartist. But Lew was gone, had been gone a very long time, was indeed at\u003cbr\u003ethat moment organising and carrying into effect a series of raids more\u003cbr\u003epicturesque than his essay against the National Bank of Johannesburg, and\u003cbr\u003econsiderably better organised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry broke back again to Rhodesia by the Beira route, and through the\u003cbr\u003eMassi-Kassi to Salisbury, which was a misfortune for him, for Captain\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Jordan, Chief of the Rhodesian C.I.D., did him the honour of\u003cbr\u003emaking a personal call on him at his hotel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You are registered as Harrison, but your name is Stone. By the way, how\u003cbr\u003eis your friend Lew Daney?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't know who you mean,\" said Harry the Valet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tiger.\" Tim Jordan smiled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Be that as it may,\" he said, \"the train leaves for Portuguese territory\u003cbr\u003ein two hours. Take it!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mystified Harry did not argue. He was mystified because he had never\u003cbr\u003ecome across Tiger Tim Jordan, though he had heard of that dynamic young\u003cbr\u003eman and knew most of the legends concerning him by heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTiger, being rather a wealthy man, could afford to be conscientious. He\u003cbr\u003emade a very careful study of the photographs of undesirables that came\u003cbr\u003ehis way, and made a point of meeting all the mail trains in, and\u003cbr\u003esuperintending the departure of all the mail trains out, most of which\u003cbr\u003econtained somebody he had no desire should further pollute the fair air\u003cbr\u003eof Southern Rhodesia, and Harry's photograph had gone to Salisbury in the\u003cbr\u003eordinary way of business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Beira Mr. Stone boarded an East Coast boat that plied between Durban\u003cbr\u003eand Greenock. He had tried most things once or twice, but there had been\u003cbr\u003eseveral happenings in London that made it desirable that the ex-detective\u003cbr\u003eshould seek a port of entry not under the direct scrutiny of Scotland\u003cbr\u003eYard, which though it was extraordinarily busy at that time, could spare\u003cbr\u003ea few officers to watch incoming liners and give a hearty welcome  to\u003cbr\u003ereturned wanderers who would rather have been spared the reception.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164283650288,"sku":"2940013750951","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013750951_p0.jpg?v=1763598404","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013750951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}