{"product_id":"9781910570746","title":"The Man with the Dark Beard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Nobody would have murdered him,” Miss Lavinia cried. “Everybody liked John!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I’m afraid it is evident that someone did not.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe note left beside Dr. John Bastow's corpse simply read: \u003cem\u003e\"It was the man with the dark beard.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Bastow hadn't approved of his daughter Hilary's fiancé. So when Hilary's father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiancé Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect for Scotland Yard. Yet how could the crime have been engineered?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow an important lacquered box is missing; a former colleague of Bastow's has suddenly shaved his beard; and the doctor's ex-secretary has come mysteriously into money. Before Inspector Stoddart of the Yard can form conclusions, another murder takes place, again credited to the “Man with The Dark Beard”...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man With the Dark Beard\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of Annie Haynes’ Inspector Stoddart mysteries, originally published in 1928. It is a sparkling lost classic from the early golden age of crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the best detective story she has yet written.” \u003cem\u003eTime and Tide\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043923345648,"sku":"9781910570746","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910570746_p0.jpg?v=1763627889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910570746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}