{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d9c","title":"A Deal In Ostriches","publish_year":1894,"publish_source":"Pall Mall Gazette","publish_edition":"December Edition","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"a-deal-in-ostriches","words":1830,"image":"ship.jpg","image_alt":"A wooden, five-masted sailing ship on the sea. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","mystery"],"blurb":"You’d have thought five ostriches would have ruled cheap on an East Indiaman. But the point was, one of ’em had swallowed a diamond.","rating":3,"description":"A domesticated ostrich is reported to have stolen a jewel from off a man’s turban, one worth thousands of pounds and disappeared back into its small herd. Everyone that hears of the rumour turns up to the auction of the herd, desperate for a chance to retrieve the diamond.","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}