{"product_id":"murder-a-la-richelieu-anita-blackmon-9781479425983","title":"Murder a la Richelieu","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Adelaide Adams, spinster and amateur sleuth, who is sometimes irreverently referred to by members of the younger generation as \"Old Battle-ax.\" As Miss Adams says: \"I was knitting in the lobby of the Hotel Richelieu the morning it all started. And not until it was forever too late did I recognize the tragic significance back of Polly Lawson's pink jabot and the Anthony woman's false eyelashes. And as I sat there knitting on my afghan there was nothing to warn me that it would serve as a shroud for a woman who was to die horribly at my feet. Nor at that time could any power on earth have convinced me that I should find myself late one terrible night, sans my dress and false hair, dangling from the eaves of the Richelieu Hotel in pursuit of a triple slayer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is easy to see that the situation at the Richelieu was not a simple one. However, Adelaide Adams, was hard to swerve from her purpose, and in the end her \"blundering\" -- as Officer Sweeney was wont to call it -- unveiled a murderer too clever by far for the conventional police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fun book sure to appeal to fans of classic detective fiction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnita Blackmon Smith (1893-1943) was a prolific mystery author who published more than 1,000 short stories and a handful of novels. She wrote in the \"Had I But Known\" school. Her other novels include \"Her Private Devil,\" \"Handmade Rainbows,\" and \"There Is No Return\" (the second Adelaide Adams mystery).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anita Blackmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479425982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479425983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wildside Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d","brand":"Anita Blackmon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985735844095,"sku":"9781479425983","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de2bd42d-7c5e-427c-b5da-3b125d8acdee.jpg?v=1683279256","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/murder-a-la-richelieu-anita-blackmon-9781479425983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}