{"product_id":"mr-good-evening-by-john-maclachlan-gray-9781771623957","title":"Mr. Good-Evening","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe open-and-shut case of the Fatal Flapper just won't stay closed in this thrilling and immersive 1920s-era murder mystery—the third instalment in the Raincoast Noir series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGray brilliantly returns us to his wonderfully vivid, sinuously imagined Vancouver, this time six months before the Crash. Superb.\u003c\/em\u003e - William Gibson, author of \u003cem\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiss Dora Decker doesn't look like the sort of young woman capable of stabbing her employer, stockbroker Ralph M. Tucker, twenty-five times with her high-heeled shoe; yet, thanks to a slow news day, she has become internationally famous as the Fatal Flapper, and the police are only too happy to make the arrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Ed McCurdy, former muckraking journalist, has traded his typewriter for a career reading radio news as \u003cem\u003eMr. Good-Evening\u003c\/em\u003e, Canada's first \"radio personality.\" As a celebrity, he draws resentment and paranoia from far and near, and he worries that the next murder victim will be himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspector Calvin Hook scours the wet, boozy streets of gritty 1920s Vancouver, piecing together a mystery that somehow connects Al Capone, Winston Churchill, and Brother Osiris, the leader of a mystical cult on DeCourcy Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMr. Good-Evening\u003c\/em\u003e joins \u003cem\u003eThe White Angel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVile Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e as the third in a trilogy Gray calls Raincoast Noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487241715948,"sku":"9781771623957","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f6ba038376d83898b10c6b24877c7c42.jpg?v=1775778112","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mr-good-evening-by-john-maclachlan-gray-9781771623957","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}