{"product_id":"9780571325979","title":"The Scarlet Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A variation on the theme of \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e in the manner of Graham Greene with an olive from \u003ci\u003eThe Cocktail Party\u003c\/i\u003e and a dash of Dashiell Hammett.' Cyril Connolly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1961, \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Boy\u003c\/i\u003e  saw the versatile Arthur Calder-Marshall venturing into gothic terrain  with a study in the paranormal. Historian George Grantley agrees to find  a property for his school-friend Kit Everness, now a successful QC, in  Grantley's home town of Wilchester. Grantley's eye falls on a place dear  to him in childhood: Anglesey House, where his boyhood companion  Charles Scarlet lived with his glamorous mother, Helen. But Charles  committed suicide there, and some say the house is haunted. Grantley and  Everness are undeterred; however, they will come to find their rational  views tested, and the lives of their loved ones endangered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123901153520,"sku":"9780571325979","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571325979_p0.jpg?v=1763719205","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571325979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}