{"product_id":"9781616463427","title":"Waylaid in Boston: (A Homer Evans Mystery)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomer Evans and Finke Maguire, private detectives, are in Boston enjoying an evening with friends, when conversation turns to the methods of detective work. A bet is made—to win, a man must be tailed. But a light-hearted wager turns to mystery with a disappearance, then murder. What, and who, is working behind the scenes? Throw in a love triangle, shady South American financial dealings, and a bag full of snakes, and you’ve got another free-for-all adventure that requires the erudite Homer Evans to untangle a strange puzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elliot Paul brews another of his lethal literary cocktails in ‘Waylaid in Boston’ . . . The sophisticated sleuth Homer Evans and his lieutenant Finke Maguire again encounter murder, this time in the very capital of propriety. Characters, outlandish; plot, sheer humorous lunacy.” (Ralph Morrissey, 1953)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Boston scramble starts with a casual bet that one Leverett Bengay, a well known man about town, cannot shadow an unsuspecting citizen for 24 hours. [Homer] Evans gets in on the bet that the amateur sleuth will fumble the ball, then does a fulltime job himself, picking up a murder to solve in the process. It is, indeed, as the book jacket says, a mad and merry murder maze . . . mostly maze.” (1953)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coachwhip Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031630102768,"sku":"9781616463427","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616463427_p0.jpg?v=1763855876","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616463427","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}