{"product_id":"9781446450956","title":"Mystery In Spiderville","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller. The décor is by Dali, the plot is a mixture of Breton and Burroughs, and the main character - the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt - has six toes, sleeps in a grave and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator - sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim - who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless, brown-haired woman. He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem, \u003ci\u003eMystery in Spiderville\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125176189168,"sku":"9781446450956","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446450956_p0.jpg?v=1763826954","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446450956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}