{"_id":"65e7080590d6c82c3368ef44","title":"The Stolen Crime","author":"Richard Connell","code":"the-stolen-crime","publish_year":1923,"publish_source":"The Sunday Star","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStolenCrime","publish_edition":"Dec 2","words":5245,"image":"spectacles.jpg","image_alt":"Broken spectacles on a wooden floor, zoomed in. Graphite filter.","genres":["mystery"],"description":"Two men argue over whether the perfect crime with no clues left behind is possible, and one man ventures his own perfect plan. A third man, listening on to the plan, decides soon after that he has somewhere to be.","blurb":"“Do you think I’m an utter fool—to tell the district attorney of my plan to commit an unusual crime, and the next day commit it under his very nose?”","rating":4,"unique_cover":"A man shines a light into the ceiling illuminating a disembodied face. Black and white sketch.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"mystery","title":"Best of Mystery","collection_type":"genre"}]}