{"product_id":"the-corpse-in-the-garden-of-perfect-brightness","title":"Malcolm Pryce: The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness [2020] hardback","description":"The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read - a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock - the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePenniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them...","brand":"Pryce, Malcolm","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44469801943330,"sku":"9781408895290","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/pryce-malcolm-malcolm-pryce-the-corpse-in-the-garden-of-perfect-brightness-2020-hardback-9781408895290-60105362243923.jpg?v=1732002421","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-corpse-in-the-garden-of-perfect-brightness","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}