{"product_id":"2940015956610","title":"The Farmhouse","description":"\"Nell Shevlin's womanly intuition works overtime after she arrives at her old homestead to rest and ponder a proposal of marriage. ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Reilly again reveals her artistry by producing a tale in which terror and menace are well sustained and provide a congruous background for McKee to wind up one of his best cases to date. \"—The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the jacket:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe shadow of a ruthless killer creeps over a quiet countryside as fear and suspense mount steadily and explode in a crashing climax.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWouldn't You Like to Know—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy lanterns are lit each evening on the graves of the four dead Vestry sisters?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy a woman wearing black net stockings and shoes with four-inch heels walks country lanes at night?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow a used bus ticket reveals an ingenious blackmail plot?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the reason for Wick's strange relationship with the breathtakingly beautiful Rita?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy flowers are heaped on a grave where no one is buried?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou will learn the answers as you read this ingenious story of death and terror. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere will the clues and events lead you?\u003cbr\u003eA human hand sticking out of a puddle after a rainstorm ... An oil painting of a lady in red ... A pistol found in a pond . . . Blood seeping out from under an attic doorway . . . Lanterns, lighted each day at dusk, on four marble headstones in a quiet country graveyard ... A bullet hidden in the finger of a pigskin glove . . . Rifle shots that shatter the quiet (and a window) of a peaceful farmhouse ... . A briefcase hidden among blackberry bushes . . . Oil dripping slowly from a tank that should have been empty . . . Exchange of carpets in an upstairs bedroom ... A powerful narcotic discarded for a quicker and more brutal method of committing MURDER . . . Filmy yellow silk knotted tightly about a shapely throat . . . murder and violence in a peaceful farming community.","brand":"St. Swithin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081058140400,"sku":"2940015956610","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015956610_p0.jpg?v=1763626901","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015956610","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}