{"product_id":"2940169808643","title":"My Darling Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003eJacob Rigolet¿a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector¿looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, the former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa¿s \u003ci\u003eDeath on a Leipzig Balcony\u003c\/i\u003e. What¿s more, Jacob¿s police detective fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Darling Detective\u003c\/i\u003e, Howard Norman delivers delivers a fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob¿s understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery¿the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax Free Library¿is Norman at his provocative, uncannily moving best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100562342128,"sku":"2940169808643","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169808643_p0.jpg?v=1769900925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169808643","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}