{"product_id":"2940151583787","title":"That Affair Next Door, An Amelia Butterworth Mystery Novel","description":"I am not an inquisitive woman, but when, in the middle of a certain warm night in September, I heard a carriage draw up at the adjoining house and stop, I could not resist the temptation of leaving my bed and taking a peep through the curtains of my window.\u003cbr\u003eFirst: because the house was empty, or supposed to be so, the family still being, as I had every reason to believe, in Europe; and secondly: because, not being inquisitive, I often miss in my lonely and single life much that it would be both interesting and profitable for me to know.\u003cbr\u003eLuckily I made no such mistake this evening. I rose and looked out, and though I was far from realizing it at the time, took, by so doing, my first step in a course of inquiry which has ended——\u003cbr\u003eBut it is too soon to speak of the end. Rather let me tell you what I saw when I parted the curtains of my window in Gramercy Park, on the night of September 17, 1895.\u003cbr\u003eNot much at first glance, only a common hack drawn up at the neighboring curb-stone. The lamp which is supposed to light our part of the block is some rods away on the opposite side of the street, so that I obtained but a shadowy glimpse of a young man and woman standing below me on the pavement. I could see, however, that the woman—and not the man—was putting money into the driver's hand. The next moment they were on the stoop of this long-closed house, and the coach rolled off.","brand":"Shepperd Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182608859376,"sku":"2940151583787","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151583787_p0.jpg?v=1764013043","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151583787","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}