{"product_id":"murder-a-la-richelieu-by-anita-blackmon-paperback","title":"Murder a la Richelieu, by Anita Blackmon (Paperback)","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","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43184946544849,"sku":"9781479425983","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9781479425983_FC.jpg?v=1784118207","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/murder-a-la-richelieu-by-anita-blackmon-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}