{"product_id":"9780544237087","title":"My Darling Detective","description":"\u003cb\u003eA witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction—his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa’s “Death on a Leipzig Balcony.” Jacob’s police detective fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In \u003ci\u003eMy Darling Detective\u003c\/i\u003e, Howard Norman delivers adelivers 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. The denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery—it’s the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax Free Library in a span of three decades—is Howard Norman at his “provocative . . . haunting”* and uncannily moving best.   \u003cbr\u003e*Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101932732656,"sku":"9780544237087","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544237087_p0.jpg?v=1763711933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544237087","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}