{"product_id":"not-to-be-taken-9780712355421","title":"Not to Be Taken","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Waterhouse has died of some gastric complication. Exhumed at his brother's request, it transpires that he has been killed by arsenical poisoning, though nobody in the sleepy village of Anneypenny seems to have had a reason to do him ill. Rumours abound of Nazi intrigue and military skullduggery, but whatever the motive, the truth remains; this was murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally serialised as a competition with a prize for the readers who could answer Berkeley's direct challenge of 'who was the poisoner?', \u003ci\u003eNot to Be Taken\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the most fiendish exercises in subtle cluework and detection from the Golden Age of Crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e...now we have \u003ci\u003eNot to Be Taken\u003c\/i\u003e, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection.\u003c\/b\u003e — Torquemada in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 1938\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited, the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal.\u003c\/b\u003e — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 1938\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853039685868,"sku":"9780712355421","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16940823482441.jpg?v=1759179354","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/not-to-be-taken-9780712355421","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}