{"product_id":"9781480418929","title":"Cold Poison","description":"\u003cb\u003eRetired in Los Angeles, Miss Withers investigates a Tinseltown poisoning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Hollywood’s most renowned cartoon studio, there are a few things you simply do not draw: snakes, cows with udders, violence, and death. So when Janet Poole finds a doodle of the studio’s famous cartoon penguin with a noose around its neck, she takes the drawing as a threat. Someone at the studio has murder on the mind. The top brass reach out to Hildegarde Withers, a retired amateur sleuth who has come to Los Angeles to relieve her asthma. The obvious suspect is Larry Reed, a disturbed cartoonist with a dark sense of mischief, but on Miss Withers’s first day working the case, something happens that suggests Larry is likely innocent: He’s murdered. This studio may work in animation, but Miss Withers will find the violence on the lot anything but cartoonish.  \u003ci\u003eCold Poison\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":47129939312880,"sku":"9781480418929","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480418929_p0.jpg?v=1763619211","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480418929","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}