{"product_id":"9781911413394","title":"Secrets Can't be Kept: A Bobby Owen Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeep in bucolic Wychshire something dreadful is stirring … \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disappearance of a club-footed and inquisitive youth leads to a tangle involving two instances of stolen jewels, a water-colour which may be the most remarkable picture ever painted … and eventually to the discovery of a body in a forest with ‘a smell of rotting, a smell of things decaying’. The scene abounds with the intense, the afflicted, and the darkly humorous in classic Punshon style. But the murderer himself is on a collision cause with fate – aided of course by Inspector Bobby Owen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecrets Can’t be Kept\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1944, the twentieth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What is distinction? … in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.” \u003cem\u003eDorothy L. Sayers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fine example of sound detective work without sensationalism.” \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49873919770864,"sku":"9781911413394","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911413394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}