{"product_id":"9781531231002","title":"In and Out","description":"Edgar   Franklin was the working name used for his publications by US writer Edgar   Franklin Stearns (1879-1958), son of Frank Albert Stearns, who wrote as Fred   Thorpe; his Mr Hawkins’ Humorous Adventures (coll of linked stories 1904),   all reprinted from The Argosy, features the eponymous inventor\/Scientist   comically failing to make a series of devices, such as the pumpless pump,   work properly – a tall-tale comic convention found very frequently in late   nineteenth-century American magazine fiction; the series continued to 1915 in   various of the Frank A Munsey magazines. “The Burden of the   Billions” (August-December 1907 All-Story), a novel-length sci-fi tale,   deals with mind control.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clue Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183272018160,"sku":"9781531231002","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781531231002_p0.jpg?v=1763739902","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781531231002","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}