{"product_id":"2026100006382-secondhand-a-parade-of-cockeyed-creatures-or-did-someone-murder-our-wandering-boy","title":"A Parade Of Cockeyed Creatures: Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — visible wear to corners and edges of the dust jacket. Page Condition: yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers\/Labels: None visible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wickedly comic crime novel, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures: Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy? sits squarely in the tradition of campy, satirical mystery writing that George Baxt mastered throughout his career. The story chronicles a murder investigation set against a backdrop of outlandish characters — a rogues' gallery of eccentrics, social misfits, and bohemian personalities drawn together by the suspicious disappearance and possible death of a young man. Baxt's razor-sharp wit and flair for the absurd infuse every chapter, turning the whodunit formula on its head with gleeful irreverence. The result is a darkly humorous, vividly populated romp through the criminal and the countercultural, written with the assured hand of an author who never took the genre — or himself — too seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48893806837979,"sku":"2026100006382-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/36e978af-3991-4305-a553-9141af7cd530.png?v=1782040333","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006382-secondhand-a-parade-of-cockeyed-creatures-or-did-someone-murder-our-wandering-boy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}