The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman i...(展开全部)

托马斯·哈代(1840-1928)，英国最杰出的乡土小说家、诗人，著有多部长篇小说、中短篇小说及诗集，作品多以故乡英格兰多切斯特为背景，富有浓厚的地方色彩。他是横跨两个世纪的作家，继承和发扬了维多利亚时代的文学传统，开拓了英国20世纪的文学。其最著名的作品有《德伯家的苔丝》《无名的裘德》《还乡》《卡斯特桥市长》等。

在线阅读本书 Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative...(展开全部)

Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.

凯西•莱克斯Kathy Reichs（1950— ） 凯西•莱克斯出生于芝加哥，在西北大学获得博士学位。身兼美国北卡罗来纳州医事检查处的刑事人类学家，以及加拿大魁北克省犯罪暨法医研究所的法医。她是全美刑事人类学协会十五名检定合格的法医之一，也是美国法医科学协会的成员，并担任刑事审判的常任专家证人，此外，她还在北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校担任社会人类学教授，经常来回奔波于夏洛特和蒙特利尔两地。 她的第一本小说《听，骨头在说话》不但荣登《纽约时报》畅销排行榜，更荣获一九九七年的“阿瑟•埃利斯”最佳处女作小说奖。而后续的《死亡的颜色》、《致命的抉择》、《战栗的航程》、《墓穴的秘密》以及《白骨的阴谋》，本本均登上畅销排行榜，并成为国际级畅销书。

"Fans of TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" should be in heaven" ("People") stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.She has a passion for the truth . . . and this time, it's taking her down.A commercial airliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a...(展开全部)

Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification. She finds a field of carnage: torsos in trees, limbs strewn among bursting suitcases and smold...(展开全部)

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