{"product_id":"the-crime-code-by-william-le-queux-paperback","title":"The Crime Code, by William Le Queux (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon after dark in the late 1920s-gambling clubs, fog-bound streets, and one chance encounter that will undo a young Member of Parliament-in-waiting. When a chivalrous intervention on behalf of a stranger ends with her companion lying dead at his feet, a promising life collapses in a single minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConvinced no jury will believe his account, the young man flees, swapping his evening dress for a lorry-driver's cap and vanishing into a dingy lodging-house in working-class Camberwell. There he tries to pass as a journalist, all the while watching the papers and ducking the policemen on the beat.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the boarding-house holds a secret of its own. Behind a neighbor's shuttered door, a band of hardened jewel-thieves with international reach is dividing its spoils-and the new lodger has just become a witness they cannot afford. To clear his name, he must navigate two underworlds at once, never certain which woman is friend and which is fatal.","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43184466690257,"sku":"9781667667058","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9781667667058_FC.jpg?v=1784069997","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/the-crime-code-by-william-le-queux-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}