{"product_id":"9781554902644","title":"Wild Thing: An Eddie Dancer Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is about to be arrested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie learns that the deadly intrigue goes further back than the present time – to a two-hundred-year-old manuscript, written by Franz Anton Mesmer, and recently purchased by Dr. Maurice. The manuscript, written in Old Italian, appears to be a catalyst that sparks killing sprees, as history shows that Mesmer’s great-great-granddaughter, who smuggled the manuscript out of East Germany, became the first of many women to die horribly at the hands of a demented serial killer. But what’s the connection?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie arranges to have the manuscript translated, but when he goes to collect it, he discovers the translator dead, her head brutally crushed by a killer who specializes in breaking bones very slowly. Eddie’s investigation unearths gruesome information about England’s notorious Newgate Prison, once frequented by Mesmer but long since burned to the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paparazzi are all over Eddie and Dr. Maurice’s wife as Eddie works to disprove Scotland Yard’s claim that Dr. Maurice is a monster. Eddie is determined to help the good Doctor and prove the police wrong. But are they?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132814049520,"sku":"9781554902644","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554902644_p0.jpg?v=1769899275","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554902644","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}