{"product_id":"9781531277413","title":"The Adventures of Jimmie Dale","description":"Frank L. Packard was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called \"Jimmie Dale\"; who first appeared in the novel The Adventures of Jimmie Dale. He was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a grey seal behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. Jimmie Dale\/The Gray Seal is often credited with popularizing and evolving what would greatly influence later pulp and comic book heroes. He also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair, The Sanctuary, a precursor of the Batcave or the Fortress of Solitude.","brand":"Kypros Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132679405808,"sku":"9781531277413","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781531277413_p0.jpg?v=1763740699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781531277413","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}