{"product_id":"they-call-me-crazy-eights-david-patrick-sr-curd-9798180865236","title":"They Call Me Crazy Eights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey Call Me Crazy Eights\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter years in a Louisiana state hospital, Eli Ray Dugas comes home to Saint Bartholomew Parish - the town that gave him a nickname instead of a name and a story instead of a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story goes like this: a poker game, a locked room, a boy who couldn't stop counting things that didn't add up. The town has been telling it for thirty years. Eli has been carrying it longer than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the men from that night start dying. Each body comes with a playing card. Each card points back to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheriff watches too closely. Old records appear before he asks for them. A cassette tape surfaces with voices rehearsing a lie. A locked door in a burned building holds a child's shoe and something that rattles. And somewhere in the gap between what Eli remembers and what Saint Bart insists happened, a dead boy's truth has been waiting in the only place men never thought to look - in the objects women kept, the receipts they saved, the cloth they refused to wash clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Call Me Crazy Eights\u003c\/i\u003e is a Southern Gothic noir about what a town buries when it runs out of places to hide, and what it costs a man to dig with his bare hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of S.A. Cosby, Tom Franklin, and Nic Pizzolatto.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Patrick Sr. Curd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180865236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d","brand":"David Patrick Sr. Curd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50846371709183,"sku":"9798180865236","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/they-call-me-crazy-eights-david-patrick-sr-curd-9798180865236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}