在线阅读本书 On the luxurious Blue Train, beautiful American heiress Ruth Kettering's dire predictions come true-she's murdered. With few clues, Hercule Poirot must look into Ruth's startling secret life.

The Greek word melancholia (literally meaning 'black bile') defines our sense of depression and black moods. Yet the little black dress is the epitome of chic and has positive meanings. From ancient and classical times to today black has been used as a symbol, a tool and a metaphor in a plethora of startling and often problematic ways. The Story of Black is an exploration of ou...(展开全部)

Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. Chief Inspector Onitsura and h...(展开全部)

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]全新“名侦探柯南”系列长篇小说版隆重登场！ 本系列收录了漫画与动画版完全未公开的全新故事情节，是喜爱柯南的读者们不可错过的精彩小说。

From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvemen...(展开全部)

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torture...(展开全部)

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens tu...(展开全部)

The Story of the Iliad Homer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which even the gods and goddesses take sides and intervene. It is in the Trojan War that the most valiant heroes of the ancient world are pitted against one another. Here Hectore, Ajax, ...(展开全部)

比尔•普洛奇尼Bill Pronzini（1943- ） 比尔•普洛奇尼一九四三年四月十三日出生于美国加利福尼亚州，全名威廉•约翰•普洛奇尼。成为作家之前，他从事过很多种工作，直至一九六九年才开始专职写作。一九七一年，普洛奇尼推出自己的首部作品《跟踪者》，以及“无名侦探”系列的首部曲《抢夺》。从此笔耕不辍，迄今为止已有百部以上的作品问世，而“无名侦探”系列小说也已经超过三十五部。在三十八年的时间跨度中，这位始终没有名字的侦探，与他的创造者和读者们共同成长，成为侦探小说史上最特殊而鲜明的侦探形象之一。 提到小说中的私人侦探，人们会想起许多光辉的名字，以及他们或坚毅、或古怪的性格。然而在这些名侦探中却有一位是因为“没有名字”而扬名天下的。比尔•普洛奇尼一直未能给自己笔下一系列畅销侦探小说的主角取一个响亮的名字，这究竟是有意为之还是纯属意外，如今已不可考，...(展开全部)

Essays trace the history of the detective story in America and England, looks at how mysteries are written, and provides a guide to detective characters and their creators