在线阅读本书 Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid--and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery--or add to it.

无可争议的侦探小说女王，侦探文学史上最伟大的作家之一。 阿加莎•克里斯蒂原名为阿加莎•玛丽•克拉丽莎•米勒，一八九○年九月十五日生于英国德文郡托基的阿什菲尔德宅邸。她几乎没有接受过正规的教育，但酷爱阅读，尤其痴迷于歇洛克•福尔摩斯的故事。 第一次世界大战期间，阿加莎•克里斯蒂成了一名志愿者。战争结束后，她创作了自己的第一部侦探小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》。几经周折，作品于一九二○正式出版，由此开启了克里斯蒂辉煌的创作生涯。一九二六年，《罗杰疑案》由哈珀柯林斯出版公司出版。这部作品一举奠定了阿加莎•克里斯蒂在侦探文学领域不可撼动的地位。之后，她又陆续出版了《东方快车谋杀案》、《ABC 谋杀案》、《尼罗河上的惨案》、《无人生还》、《阳光下的罪恶》等脍炙人口的作品。时至今日，这些作品依然是世界侦探文学宝库里最宝贵的财富。根据她的小说改编而成的舞台剧《捕鼠器》，...(展开全部)

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

露丝·斯科尔（Ruth Scurr），1971年生，曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学求学，获剑桥大学政治学博士学位，现在剑桥大学讲授政治学和历史学课程。她还是一位出色的文化批评家，是《纽约书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿人。本书一经出版即得到知识界关注，引起热烈反响。

Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant sc...(展开全部)

让·波德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929—2007），法国哲学家、社会学家、后现代理论家。先后任教于巴黎十大和巴黎九大，撰写了一系列分析当代社会文化现象、批判当代资本主义的著作，产生了广泛的世界性影响。其代表作主要有《物体系》《消费社会》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》《论诱惑》《美国》《完美的罪行》及系列随笔《冷记忆》等。

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

让·波德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929—2007），法国哲学家、社会学家、后现代理论家。先后任教于巴黎十大和巴黎九大，撰写了一系列分析当代社会文化现象、批判当代资本主义的著作，产生了广泛的世界性影响。其代表作主要有《物体系》《消费社会》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》《论诱惑》《美国》《完美的罪行》及系列随笔《冷记忆》等。

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