{"product_id":"9781453247402","title":"A Fatal Glass of Beer","description":"\u003cb\u003eA huckster repeatedly robs a comedian, leading Toby on a cross-country chase\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe  bank accounts are in the names of men like Otis J. Raisincluster,  Quigley E. Sneersight, and Cormorant Beecham, but any comedy connoisseur  knows that names that nonsensical could come only from the twisted  brain of W. C. Fields. When toiling on the vaudeville circuit, the  acid-tongued comic actor opened a new account in every town he played,  adding up to a mountain of bankbooks and nearly a million dollars  squirreled away in banks across the country. When a burglar makes off  with a stack of the books, Fields hires private investigator Toby Peters  to protect his nest egg. Toby’s going on a road trip, and Fields wants  to come along for the ride. As the trail winds  through the nation’s smallest towns, complications pop up in the form of  the Amish, John Barrymore, and the Ku Klux Klan. If the thief doesn’t  kill Toby Peters, W. C. Fields’s ceaseless shtick might.","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143286931696,"sku":"9781453247402","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453247402_p0.jpg?v=1763851143","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453247402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}