{"product_id":"9781771623957","title":"Mr. Good-Evening","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe open-and-shut case of the Fatal Flapper just won’t stay closed in this thrilling and immersive novel of 1920s Vancouver.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Ed McCurdy, former muckraking journalist, has traded his typewriter for a career reading radio news as Mr. Good-Evening, 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\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\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","brand":"John MacLachlan Gray (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. |  Hardback | Cloth |  2024-04-27","offer_id":44652763840767,"sku":"9781771623957","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5932b054-0cf2-4f76-8f2a-efac34e08a6f.jpg?v=1704230259","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771623957","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}