{"product_id":"2940014220781","title":"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: A Mystery\/Detective, Short Story Classic By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. He made no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for he stood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face, smoking his pipe, and casting an occasional glance at the message. Suddenly he turned upon me with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I suppose, Watson, we must look upon you as a man of letters,\" said he. \"How do you define the word 'grotesque'?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Strange--remarkable,\" I suggested.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe shook his head at my definition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is surely something more than that,\" said he; \"some underlying suggestion of the tragic and the terrible. If you cast your mind back to some of those narratives with which you have afflicted a long-suffering public, you will recognize how often the grotesque has deepened into the criminal. Think of that little affair of the red-headed men. That was grotesque enough in the outset, and yet it ended in a desperate attempt at robbery. Or, again, there was that most grotesque affair of the five orange pips, which let straight to a murderous conspiracy. The word puts me on the alert.\"","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168761954544,"sku":"2940014220781","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014220781_p0.jpg?v=1763612904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014220781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}