{"product_id":"the-specimen-case-1","title":"The Specimen Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one stories, written across thirty years and gathered by an author who preferred to remain a rumour. A market trader in old China talks his way out of a death sentence. A blind investigator hunts a traitor through wartime London on the evidence of a scent and a sound. In Paris, in the autumn of 1793, two men meet in a rain-swept street and discover which of them holds the other’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere a ruined musician is interrupted at the worst possible moment, a shrewd antiquarian is offered the find of his career, a country inn keeps a secret that outlasts its keepers, and a retired sea captain wakes convinced of something no one else will believe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhost story and swindle, satire and espionage, quiet comedy and quieter dread — a deliberate sampler from one of the most elusive craftsmen of the golden age of the English magazine story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67394465988912,"sku":"9781667669595","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-specimen-case-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}