{"product_id":"practice-to-deceive-paperback-1","title":"Practice to Deceive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. M. Pirrone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBig-city bootleggers. Small-town secrets. Twin private eyes with hearts as big as their trust funds, unraveling a web of deceit and danger from Chicago's back-room gin joints to rural Indiana Klan country. Welcome to the Jazz Age, where freedom comes with a price...and what matters most is who you owe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1923, and Chicago society girl Emma McGrath desperately wants to escape her frivolous life. From driving ambulances across the battlefields of the Great War to planning charity balls and angling for a husband? No, thank you. Plus, she's worried about her twin brother, Jack, whose gambling and womanizing can't erase the memory of the wounded soldiers he failed to save. They both need a sense of purpose again, or they'll go crazy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmma has the solution: hang out their shingle as private detectives. They've read tons of Sherlock Holmes, and nosing into things is right up their alley, so why not give it a whirl? But their first case, finding a missing speakeasy singer, proves tougher than they bargained for when the singer turns up dead and Jack is the prime suspect. Saddled with a flim-flam artist client who's dodging her gangster ex-boyfriend, one step ahead of a bulldog homicide cop determined to get his man, Emma and Jack skip town to chase a long-shot lead involving the dead singer's brute of a husband who's high up in the local KKK. Out of their depth and with targets on their backs, they stumble on a second murder that holds the key to the first...but can they stay alive long enough to prove it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46642480218156,"sku":"9781737652038","price":22.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/fE4Weew9hU9781737652038.webp?v=1794426669","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/practice-to-deceive-paperback-1","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}