{"product_id":"answer-in-the-negative","title":"Answer in the Negative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategories--mobile-button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategory-data--data pb-0 mb-0\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover your new favourite forgotten female classics with the Mermaid collection\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eNo 7\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e Henrietta Hamilton's \u003ci\u003eAnswer in the Negative\u003c\/i\u003e with a foreword by Sophie Hannah.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Morningside, assistant at The National Press Archives on Fleet Street, is receiving nasty poison pen letters. His superior Toby Lorn wants to put a stop to it, so he calls on his friends Sally and Johnny Heldar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarried amateur sleuths, the Heldars agree to go undercover, posing as researchers to scout out the many suspects in the Archives. After all, Fleet Street is home to plenty of seedy types. But, soon after they begin, they find a body - bludgeoned to death by a box of glass negatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, the genteel world of the archives is a tangled web of suspicion. When another murder swiftly follows, the Heldars worry that one of them maybe next . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategories--mobile-button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategory-data--data pb-0 mb-0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenrietta Hamilton\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pseudonym for \u003cstrong\u003eHester Denne Shepherd \u003c\/strong\u003ewho was born in Dundee in 1920 and educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, earning an honours degree in Modern Languages. During the Second World War, Hamilton served in the Wrens. Afterwards, she worked in a London bookshop, gaining first-hand experience of antiquarian bookselling - the background of her crime-solving duo, Sally and Johnny Heldar. During her life, Hamilton enjoyed writing and hill-walking. She died in 1995 in Hastings, East Sussex.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henrietta Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919142686887,"sku":"9781405991032","price":28.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4945\/4503\/files\/answer-in-the-negative.-Hamilton-2026-9781405991032.jpg?v=1782449404","url":"https:\/\/www.murderousink.com.au\/products\/answer-in-the-negative","provider":"Murderous Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}