A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges.  Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St.  Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply.  By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret ...(展开全部)

A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges.  Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St.  Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply.  By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret ...(展开全部)

'This is Francis writing at his very best' Evening Standard Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back. In Come to Grief he faces new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in deep affection. On the morning set for th...(展开全部)

德里克·史密斯（1927-2003），本名德里克·豪·史密斯，英国侦探小说作家、密室研究家。史密斯深受约翰·狄克森·卡尔的影响，创作了挑战不可能犯罪的长篇处女作《召唤恶魔》（1953），在许多密室书单上都可以见到其身影。但是，之后创作的长篇小说《致命舞台》和《雕塑家之死》一直未能在欧美正式出版，只有前者于1997年在日本私人出版，因数量稀少成为价格不菲的珍本书。直到2014年，史密斯三部作品英文版才在美国推出，同时中文版也与中国读者见面。

The Washington Post calls Come to Paddington Fair “a masterpiece.” The death scene of a West End play goes horribly wrong in front of a matinee audience to which someone has invited a Scotland Yard inspector and his detective friend. But was the heroine shot by the stage gun fired by her jealous lover, or by the mystery man alone in a stage-side box? Apparently neither could ha...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

德里克·史密斯（1927-2003），本名德里克·豪·史密斯，英国侦探小说作家、密室研究家。史密斯深受约翰·狄克森·卡尔的影响，创作了挑战不可能犯罪的长篇处女作《召唤恶魔》（1953），在许多密室书单上都可以见到其身影。但是，之后创作的长篇小说《致命舞台》和《雕塑家之死》一直未能在欧美正式出版，只有前者于1997年在日本私人出版，因数量稀少成为价格不菲的珍本书。直到2014年，史密斯三部作品英文版才在美国推出，同时中文版也与中国读者见面。

Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.

A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Caribbean island she tumbles into a world where no one is quite what they seem, least of all ‘Yankee’ Paul. Is Paul a drug smuggler? A CIA operative? Either way he’s trouble and his of...(展开全部)