克里斯蒂安娜•布兰德（1907－1988） 推理小说黄金时期的最后一位大师，推理小说史上的传奇女子。1941年，当推理小说全盘出现桎梏之际，她竟陆续推出了两部小说，而数年之后，更以一部《绿色危机》敲开无数读者心扉。1946年，她顺利加入了门槛颇高的英国侦探作家俱乐部，自此益发佳作不断，备受瞩目。1972至1973年间，布兰德以其杰出的成就，荣任英国犯罪作家协会主席。

From one of the top class writers of the classic mystery genre, Death of Jezebel was first published in 1949, and is the second Christianna Brand title in the British Library Crime Classics series. It's a pleasingly over the top mystery involving a knightly pageant show in London. “A very neat version of the ‘sealed room’ mystery ... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportu...(展开全部)

Johnny Wise came to London from Malaya in 1940, met a girl and, when she was unfaithful to him, committed suicide. Retribution came in 1947, catching up with the principals in Johnny Wise’s death in the course of an Exhibition’s pageant. Which of the eleven visored knights killed the maiden in the tower—and how? Inspector Cockrill is baffled. And his task is not made any easier...(展开全部)

Book Description Arthur Miller seemed to capture the sometimes tragic plight of the common man with his Death of a Salesman. Bloom suggests the strength of the play is puzzling but beyond dispute, lying more in its presentation on stage than its written form. The play's continued vitality is unquestioned. The title, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, part of Chelsea House ...(展开全部)

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a...(展开全部)

Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmark-O,; they have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start. And they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place ...

The theology in this novel is not an analog of any known religion. It stems from an attempt made by William Sarill and myself to develop an abstract, logical system of religious thought, based on the arbitrary postulate that God exists.

Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. At once a wrenchi...(展开全部)

娜歐．馬許（Ngaio Marsh,一八九五－一九八二） 生於紐西蘭，就讀坎特伯里大學藝術學院，學習繪畫多年。曾從事繪畫及劇團工作；並曾至英國與人合夥室內裝潢事業，搭船赴英途中亦為家鄉的報社撰稿。二次大戰爆發前回紐西蘭照顧病危的母親，大戰期間則為紐西蘭的紅十字會運輸部工作。一九四一年起在坎特伯里大學戲劇系指導學生演戲，展開了數十年的長期合作。此後，她就帶領學生在澳大利亞與紐西蘭巡迴演出並寫作推理小說，餘生於紐西蘭與英國度過。她常利用海上航行的機會來觀察海上旅客與構思情節。 娜歐．馬許一共寫了三十二本推理小說，主角皆為蘇格蘭警場警探洛德里克．艾倫，第一本推理小說《A Man Lay Dead》寫於一九三二年（一九三四年出版），開啟了她的推理小說生涯，讓她揚名世界，與桃樂斯．賽兒絲、阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂以及Margery Allingham並稱一九三○年代的...(展开全部)

娜歐．馬許（Ngaio Marsh,一八九五－一九八二） 生於紐西蘭，就讀坎特伯里大學藝術學院，學習繪畫多年。曾從事繪畫及劇團工作；並曾至英國與人合夥室內裝潢事業，搭船赴英途中亦為家鄉的報社撰稿。二次大戰爆發前回紐西蘭照顧病危的母親，大戰期間則為紐西蘭的紅十字會運輸部工作。一九四一年起在坎特伯里大學戲劇系指導學生演戲，展開了數十年的長期合作。此後，她就帶領學生在澳大利亞與紐西蘭巡迴演出並寫作推理小說，餘生於紐西蘭與英國度過。她常利用海上航行的機會來觀察海上旅客與構思情節。 娜歐．馬許一共寫了三十二本推理小說，主角皆為蘇格蘭警場警探洛德里克．艾倫，第一本推理小說《A Man Lay Dead》寫於一九三二年（一九三四年出版），開啟了她的推理小說生涯，讓她揚名世界，與桃樂斯．賽兒絲、阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂以及Margery Allingham並稱一九三○年代的...(展开全部)