There has never been a murder on Alderney. It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand-new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him. Very soon they discover that all is not as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil ...(展开全部)

There has never been a murder on Alderney. It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand-new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him. Very soon they discover that all is not as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil ...(展开全部)

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the ...(展开全部)

安东尼•霍洛维茨 | Anthony Horowitz (1955— ) 英国知名侦探小说作家、编剧。 一九五五年四月，霍洛维茨出生于伦敦一个富裕的犹太家庭。童年时期虽生活优渥，但并不快乐。据他回忆，作为一个超重又内向的孩子，经常遭到校长体罚，在学校的经历也被他描述成“ 残酷的体验”。八岁时，他就意识到自己会成为一名作家。他说：“只有在写作时，我才会感到由衷的快乐。”母亲是霍洛维茨在文学世界的启蒙者，不仅引导他阅读大量书籍，甚至在他十三岁生日时送给他一副人类骸骨。他表示，这件礼物让他意识到“所有人的最终结局都不过是白骨一具”。其父因与时任英国首相哈罗德•威尔逊的政客圈子过从甚密，为了自保，将财产秘密转入瑞士的隐秘账户。结果在霍洛维茨二十二岁时，父亲因癌症去世，大额财产下落不明使霍洛维茨与母亲陷入困境，自此家境一落千丈。 一九七七年，霍洛维茨毕业于约克...(展开全部)

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound. Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far ...(展开全部)

Before The Firm and  The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,  John Grisham wrote this riveting story of  retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a  Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom  drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the  savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers  a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small  southern ...(展开全部)

The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming "Sin City 2"! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the sl...(展开全部)

The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming "Sin City 2"! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the sl...(展开全部)

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it t...(展开全部)