埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen），推理小说史上一个非凡的名字，实指弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay，1905—1982）和曼弗里德•李（Manfred Lee，1905—1971）这对表兄弟作家。他们的创作时间长达半个世纪，作品多达数十部，全球销量约计两亿册；他们曾五获埃德加•爱伦•坡奖；他们的四部“悲剧系列”和九部“国名系列”作品被公认为推理小说史上难以逾越的佳作；他们于1941年创办的《埃勒里•奎因神秘杂志》（EQMM）成为劳伦斯•布洛克、迈克尔•康柰利等推理大家起飞的平台，迄今仍是最专业、最权威的推理文学杂志之一；他们出资设立“密室研讨小组”，定期与约翰•狄克森•卡尔、克雷顿•劳森等推理大师交流、切磋……他们成就的不仅仅是自己，更为成就推理小说的黄金时代书写了浓墨重彩。

A little girl painstakingly crafts Valentines for her mother and father, and when her cards mysteriously disappear, she tracks down the culprit and gets her own Valentine's treat, in a beginning reader complemented by flash cards to help reading comprehension.

10 hours, 23 minutes A compelling story of murder, betrayal, and the secrets of the past… Georgina, known as Geo, is a 30-year-old rising executive when her world comes crashing down. Her high school boyfriend has been identified and arrested for a series of serial murders, including Angela, Geo's best friend in high school. Angela disappeared without a trace at 16 and her body...(展开全部)

This is the story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong—one of the most popular girls in school—disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmace...(展开全部)

6 whimsical short stories by brilliant, witty, English author, poet and critic. Improbable plots, marvelously funny episodes, evocative descriptions of late Victorian London distinguish delightful tales focusing on a club devoted to completely original and unusual professions. First republication to include all 32 of Chesterton's own original illustrations.

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has Gala...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·斯潘塞·卡尔，美国著名传记作家。 1929年7月21日生于佛罗里达，从12岁起就立志成为作家。北卡罗莱纳大学文学硕士，后被弗吉尼亚的林奇伯格学院授予名誉人文博士学位。从1985年到2003年退休，一直执教于亚特兰大的佐治亚州立大学英语系。 出生于美国南方的卡尔博士，一生都在探访研究南方作家的生平。她是研究卡森·麦卡勒斯的权威，除了本传记外，还出版了《解读卡森·麦卡勒斯》。她还为作家约翰·多斯·帕索斯、作家和作曲家保罗·鲍勒斯著书立传。目前她正在创作两部传记：一部关于女作家尤多拉·威尔蒂，另一部关于剧作家田纳西·威廉姆斯。