{"product_id":"9780712369756","title":"The Black Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the dock stood a girl, but could she be the one who had lately entered and was seated between her female companions?… Even the judge, sitting in Mr. Justice Deidpole's seat, was unfamiliar, a wraith from another century. A faint perfume, as of herbs or wholesome flowers, stole to the young man's nostrils… Was it reality, this scene, or a form of nightmare?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, when a string of pearls is stolen from a wealthy guest at the Wheatsheaf hotel in Derriford, suspicion quickly falls on Ann Bacon, an 18-year-old maid. Though she protests her innocence, she is arrested and hauled up in front of the county court. In 1752, a rich traveller stays at the Cock Inn just outside the town, where she, too, is relieved of her pearls. Everyone is convinced of the guilt of Patience Passey, an 18-year-old serving girl at the inn, and she too is arrested and tried at the local assizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinking the two eras is a marshal of the court who starts to realise he may be the only person able to witness both cases first-hand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502577000821,"sku":"9780712369756","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780712369756.jpg?v=1786796751","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780712369756","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}