{"product_id":"man-with-the-dark-beard-book-annie-haynes-9781910570746","title":"The Man with the Dark Beard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNobody would have murdered him, Miss Lavinia cried. Everybody liked John \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eI'm afraid it is evident that someone did not.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe note left beside Dr. John Bastow's corpse simply read: \u003cem\u003eIt was the man with the dark beard.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Bastow hadn't approved of his daughter Hilary's fiancE. So when Hilary's father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiancE Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect for Scotland Yard. Yet how could the crime have been engineered?\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\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\u003eThis is the best detective story she has yet written. \u003cem\u003eTime and Tide\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49508235575569,"sku":"GOR013632819","price":12.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50207544279313,"sku":"CIN1910570745G","price":14.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053714669841,"sku":"NIN9781910570746","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51308227068177,"sku":"GOR011611756","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52339696009489,"sku":"NLS9781910570746","price":16.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52731920023825,"sku":"GOR014603580","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1910570745.jpg?v=1750996935","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/man-with-the-dark-beard-book-annie-haynes-9781910570746","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}