{"product_id":"9781504042703","title":"The Dream Walker","description":"\u003cb\u003eA New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this “most uncommon thriller” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e(\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Olivia Hudson, a drama teacher at a Manhattan girl’s school, refuses to let her uncle John Paul Marcus play the role of dupe in a real-life revenge story. Uncle John is a beloved war veteran, a New York institution, and a hard-working philanthropist with an unimpeachable reputation. His mistake—an honorable one, at that—was disclosing the financial chicanery of industrial heir Raymond Pankerman, and it could cost John his life.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Raymond has staged the perfect crime, and the perfect frame-up, to destroy the old man. He has everything he needs: a failed and penniless playwright who’d sell his soul if the price was right, a budding television starlet looking for a breakout role, and a susceptible public suckered into believing a supernatural swindle that’s making headlines.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As a good man is taken down by the outlandish claims of an “otherworldly” publicity-seeking beauty nicknamed the Dream Walker, Olivia refuses to stand idly by—especially since she has the talent to outwit and outplay an actress at her own duplicitous game.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Inspired by the mob mentality of the postwar McCarthy hearings, Charlotte Armstrong’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Walker\u003c\/i\u003e (also published as \u003ci\u003eAlibi for Murder\u003c\/i\u003e) is both an ingeniously clever mystery of double-crosses and triple-twists, and a still-relevant cautionary tale about the irreversible consequences of tabloid journalism and the gullibility of the masses.","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175891943664,"sku":"9781504042703","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504042703_p0.jpg?v=1769897521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504042703","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}