{"product_id":"9781412162364","title":"The Paradise Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What is it, Varner?\" asked Bryce calmly. \"Something happened?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man swept his hand across his forehead as if he were dazed, and then jerked his thumb over his shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A man!\" he gasped. \"Foot of St. Wrytha's Stair there, doctor. Dead -- or if not dead, near it. I saw it!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryce seized Varner's arm and gave it a shake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You saw -- what?\" he demanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Saw him -- fall. Or rather -- flung!\" panted Varner. \"Somebody -- couldn't see who, nohow -- flung him right through yon doorway, up there. He fell right over the steps -- crash!\" Bryce looked over the tops of the yews and cypresses at the doorway in the clerestory to which Varner pointed -- a low, open archway gained by the half-ruinous stair. It was forty feet at least from the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You saw him -- thrown!\" he exclaimed. \"Thrown -- down there? Impossible, man!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tell you I saw it!\" asserted Varner doggedly. \"I was looking at one of those old tombs yonder -- somebody wants some repairs doing -- and the jackdaws were making such a to-do up there by the roof I glanced up at them. And I saw this man thrown through that door -- fairly flung through it! God! -- do you think I could mistake my own eyes?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Did you see who flung him?\" asked Bryce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No; I saw a hand -- just for one second, as it might be -- by the edge of the doorway.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"eBooksLib","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153474240752,"sku":"9781412162364","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781412162364_p0.jpg?v=1763723146","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781412162364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}