{"product_id":"mystery-in-spiderville","title":"Mystery In Spiderville","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller. The décor is by Dali, the plot is a mixture of Breton and Burroughs, and the main character - the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt - has six toes, sleeps in a grave and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator - sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim - who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless, brown-haired woman. He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem, \u003ci\u003eMystery in Spiderville\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466596819317,"sku":"9780099426936","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099426936.jpg?v=1785654654","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/mystery-in-spiderville","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}