{"product_id":"2940153983264","title":"Strictly Poison and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eJazz music fused with pulp fiction. The result? Stories that croon like Nat \"King\" Cole, and strike like a lead pipe. Tales of Jazz artists, and other assorted characters, looking for that big break -- often getting broken. Charles Boeckman was a musician writing pulp fiction between gigs. He knew his milieu. 22 stories, culled from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Manhunt, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Boeckman's stories usually focused on sad people trying to escape their dreary lives -- shifty con-artists, embittered detectives and hen-pecked losers. The author's jazz background figures into several stories, reaching a two-fisted crescendo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Venture Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070486397168,"sku":"2940153983264","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153983264_p0.jpg?v=1764104631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153983264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}