{"product_id":"9781943910342","title":"Wicked Stepmother","description":"Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children.\u003cp\u003eBut what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan, too smart for his own good and suspicious about his father's death, has to be the first to go. Then there's pretty, spoiled Verity, hooked on cocaine and perpetually drunk - who'd ask any questions if she died suddenly? And clever Cassandra, just out of college and beginning a career as a literary editor, will simply have to get over being dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWicked Stepmother\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) is the second of the camp classics written by Michael McDowell (co-author of \u003ci\u003eBeetlejuice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nightmare Before Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e) in collaboration with Dennis Schuetz. Five of McDowell's classic horror novels are also available from Valancourt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056787570928,"sku":"9781943910342","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943910342_p0.jpg?v=1763792420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943910342","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}