{"product_id":"the-ten-teacups","title":"The Ten Teacups","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in 1937, this classic mystery shines on today as one of the great masterpieces of the impossible crime genre.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight cordon at Berwick Terrace. But gunfire rings out from the top floor at 5 p.m. on the 31st, and the corpse of one of the celebrity tenants is found in a locked room, shot twice from behind, a smoking gun by their side and on the table – ten teacups. The killer has vanished into thin air, an impossibility which calls for the masterful sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale to enter the fray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52551343735064,"sku":"9781464253775","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781464253775_e1c4f.jpg?v=1787342522","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/the-ten-teacups","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}