{"product_id":"2940154411933","title":"How Green Was My Lovely Big Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was a classic pea-souper, thick with the stink of the Tyne and as sticky as an athlete's armpit. I wanted to go home, relax, tune into Channel 69 and open a beer, but something caught my eye through the gloom. Ordinarily, I'd have told Pussy Hideaway to go and lose herself, but I was behind with the rent - if something didn't turn up soon, I'd be sleeping at the office like one of those sad fools you read about in cheap magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story first appeared in my short story collection 'Girlfriend Interrupted and Other Fictions' and is a sort of faux-Raymond Chandler fable. I wrote it while looking for ideas for what eventually became the first book in my Terry Bell Mysteries series, 'Death on a Dirty Afternoon'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin Garrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074722808048,"sku":"2940154411933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154411933_p0.jpg?v=1764066816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154411933","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}