A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

After the death of his wife, New York City detective Dave heads west to the small town Mesa Grande, Colorado, and takes a job as Chief Investigator for the Public Defender. When a rivalry between two professors at the nearby college reaches a deadly level, it is with the help of his visiting Mom — a wise, tough, shrewd Jewish New Yorker — that Dave untangles a complex puzzle th...(展开全部)

Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of Hamlet under the exacting direction of John Gielgud. But as rehearsals progress, the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel. One of them is the most famous movie star in the world; the other, a patric...(展开全部)

戦死したとされていた元同僚が、突然の便りとともに帰国。　そして久しぶりに昔のオフィスに顔を出し、かつての仲間とともに即席の帰国歓迎会となったが、それも束の間の間に、一転して「殺人」の舞台と化す─全員に振舞われたコーヒーのひとつに、いつのまにか毒薬が仕込まれていたのだった。 誰一人として犯行の瞬間を知らず、しかも当然あるべきはずの「毒薬の容器」さえ見つからない！！　衆人環視の密室状態下で、いったい誰が、いかにしてこの大胆な犯行をなしえたのか、そしてその動機とは……。 被害者たちをめぐる複雑な人間関係と、「容疑者たち」の不可解な言動の数々をまえに、探偵ナイジェル・ストレンジウェイズは何を読み取り、いかなる「結論」を導き出すのか。　徹底的に論理にこだわった本格「フーダニット」ミステリの傑作、ついに登場！！