{"product_id":"9781480418868","title":"The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (Hildegarde Withers Series #7)","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the heat of a Central American summer, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiss Withers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003einvestigates murder on the Mexico Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOscar Piper doesn’t belong on Mexican trains. A New York City detective, he’s in the Dominican Republic as part of an international delegation come to cut the ribbon on a new transcontinental highway. This grants him the honor of a trip to Mexico City on the hottest, dustiest train in North America—a crowded slow coach that’s about to become a crime scene. The alderman’s wife does not know how the bottle of Elixir d’Amour got into her bag. She only knows that when the porter smelled it, he dropped dead. She seems to have been the intended target for the poisoned perfume—but who would want to kill a corrupt politician’s trophy wife? Oscar sends a wire to his friend Hildegarde Withers, a schoolteacher and amateur sleuth, whom he knows will not wilt in the Mexican heat. Before she begins her investigation, she has only one question: “¿\u003ci\u003eCómo se dice\u003c\/i\u003e ‘murder’?” \u003ci\u003eThe Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla\u003c\/i\u003e is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Pool Murder \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMurder on the Blackboard\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129975357680,"sku":"9781480418868","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480418868_p0.jpg?v=1763619445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480418868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}