{"product_id":"the-ten-teacups-by-john-dickson-carr-9780712355278","title":"The Ten Teacups","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr, returns to the Crime Classics series. He pitches his series amateur detective, Henry Merrivale, against a seemingly watertight mystery: after the police are sent a note warning them about a forthcoming crime, a man is shot in a room on the top floor of a Kensington townhouse—a house watched from all sides during the murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSurely nobody could have gotten in or out? And yet the man is dead, and just like the last time the police received a note like this, there are ten teacups set out at the scene of the crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eH.M. is drawn to unravel this bizarre crime, as the mysterious significance of the ten teacups in murders past and present pushes the police to their limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46848046989548,"sku":"9780712355278","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16939393482441.jpg?v=1758958774","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-ten-teacups-by-john-dickson-carr-9780712355278","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}