{"product_id":"9781504048521","title":"The Sunday Pigeon Murders","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo New York City street photographers develop a deadly get-rich-quick scheme in this novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed—until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There’s only one way for Bingo and Handsome to muscle in on that half-million-dollar claim: Kidnap Pigeon and blackmail his coconspirator. Unfortunately, their foolproof plan comes with mobsters, a dodgy chorus girl, multiple murders, a refrigerated corpse, and the strange Mr. Pigeon himself, who, it seems, \u003ci\u003elikes\u003c\/i\u003e being a hostage. In fact, he has no intention of escaping. It’s the surest way to protect his own secret—which could be Bingo and Handsome’s biggest threat.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The first mystery writer ever to make the cover of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Craig Rice is a “composite of Agatha Christie’s ingenuity, Dashiell Hammett’s speed, and Dorothy Sayers’s wit” (Louis Untermeyer, Gold Medal Award–winning poet).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Sunday Pigeon Murders \u003ci\u003eis the 1st book in the Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136939901168,"sku":"9781504048521","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504048521_p0.jpg?v=1763715834","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504048521","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}