{"product_id":"9781504047869","title":"In the Balance","description":"The \"marvelous\" British governess-turned-sleuth helps a new bride who fears her husband intends to murder her (Daily Mail).  Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when, with a violent shudder of the train, a young woman is thrust into her compartment. She's beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthy--a lethal combination.  In a state of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husband's first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, he's broke again--and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisle's imagination--but if this frightened young lady is a target for murder, the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first.  Starring a mature sleuth who \"has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot\", In the Balance is a classic British mystery (Manchester Evening News).","brand":"Patricia Wentworth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896638034238,"sku":"9781504047869","price":525.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781504047869.jpg?v=1707512334","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781504047869","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}