{"product_id":"9781950301621","title":"Webster (Smithy\") \u003c2\u003e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Desiree has elevated the documentary-style ghost-story genre to unique heights.\" —Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1974, in a derelict Rhode Island mansion called Trevor Hall, a team of scientists taught American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. They affectionately christened their subject \"Smithy.\" His official name was Webster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Smithy Project ended in tragedy, some believing that a dark presence inside Trevor Hall had been disturbed. Webster was acquired by CSAM, a research lab in California run by the iron-fisted Manfried Teague. CSAM had a reputation for sullen staff, gloomy conditions, and cruel experiments. Despite this, two of Webster's original researchers, Jeff Dalton and Ruby Cardini, followed him west, determined to look after their friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut another entity followed the chimp as well, and in the waning years of the 1970s, \"Webster\" became synonymous with a menagerie of inexplicable events, strange social movements, curious legal cases, and chilling courtroom testimonies. All were haunted by the question left unanswered at Trevor Hall: Had Webster not only bridged the gap between man and animal, but between this world and the next?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inkshares","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45316117954639,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":665.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/ja\/products\/9781950301621","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}