As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly disconnected with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He nev...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's most appealing sleuth, returns in this classic baffler of a vacation-turned-deadly.

At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka’s best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventuall...(展开全部)

At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka’s best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventuall...(展开全部)

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender―newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to t...(展开全部)

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender―newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to t...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

比尔•普洛奇尼Bill Pronzini（1943- ） 比尔•普洛奇尼一九四三年四月十三日出生于美国加利福尼亚州，全名威廉•约翰•普洛奇尼。成为作家之前，他从事过很多种工作，直至一九六九年才开始专职写作。一九七一年，普洛奇尼推出自己的首部作品《跟踪者》，以及“无名侦探”系列的首部曲《抢夺》。从此笔耕不辍，迄今为止已有百部以上的作品问世，而“无名侦探”系列小说也已经超过三十五部。在三十八年的时间跨度中，这位始终没有名字的侦探，与他的创造者和读者们共同成长，成为侦探小说史上最特殊而鲜明的侦探形象之一。 提到小说中的私人侦探，人们会想起许多光辉的名字，以及他们或坚毅、或古怪的性格。然而在这些名侦探中却有一位是因为“没有名字”而扬名天下的。比尔•普洛奇尼一直未能给自己笔下一系列畅销侦探小说的主角取一个响亮的名字，这究竟是有意为之还是纯属意外，如今已不可考，...(展开全部)

Smallbone Deceased is a British mystery novel by Michael Gilbert, first published in the United Kingdom in 1950 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Harper & Brothers. A practicing lawyer himself, Gilbert made the setting of the novel a London solicitor's office. It was Gilbert's fourth novel and, like his three earlier ones, features Chief Inspector Hazlerigg as...(展开全部)

The Unexpected Guest is a 1958 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. On a foggy night, Michael Starkwedder enters the home of the Warwicks through a window in the study. He finds the dead body of Richard Warwick, and finds Warwick's wife, Laura, holding a gun that supposedly killed him. Despite the murder being obvious, and overwhelming evidence pointing towards it, Starkwedder...(展开全部)