{"product_id":"book-2puc","title":"A Lark's Tale","description":"Verity Lark knows everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the London Daily Gazette's popular gossip columnist, she is extremely adept at sneaking into houses, assuming disguises and overseeing a vast network of spies to ensure she stays abreast of the beau monde's comings and goings. If it sometimes seems as though she was hiding behind the settee during a particularly fierce quarrel between a husband and his wife, it's most likely because she was hiding behind the settee during their fierce quarrel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut nobody knows her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting under a pen name, Verity safeguards her anonymity via an elaborately constructed alter ego. Seemingly everywhere, Mr. Twaddle-Thum is in fact nowhere. He has never met with an informant or skulked in a dark alley. He simply does not exist. That is why she is so startled to discover he has recently been spotted at a variety of locations. A Twaddle-Sham is knocking about London and in such a ham-handed manner he is inciting people to murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt least that's what Verity thinks is happening when she stumbles across a plot to kill him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is the real target?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell, see, that's just the problem because Verity can't actually say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time in years, she isn't sure of anything.","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67883345019184,"sku":"BD2puc","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2puc-Square-cover.webp?v=1790702980","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2puc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}