Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places who find value in what we leave behind. In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter ...(展开全部)

他是史上智商最高的作家，四岁通读《圣经》，十五岁发表诗作，三十岁时在四百个城市开设银行；四十岁时他一贫如洗，开始创作侦探小说糊口，五十岁时作品累计印数超过八千万册，和埃勒里•奎因并称为美国侦探小说黄金时代最高成就者；他是一位英勇的反纳粹斗士，为了理想放弃了每年超过一千万美元的收入，得到了罗斯福总统和美国民众的称赞。他就是雷克斯•斯托特！

他是史上智商最高的作家，四岁通读《圣经》，十五岁发表诗作，三十岁时在四百个城市开设银行；四十岁时他一贫如洗，开始创作侦探小说糊口，五十岁时作品累计印数超过八千万册，和埃勒里•奎因并称为美国侦探小说黄金时代最高成就者；他是一位英勇的反纳粹斗士，为了理想放弃了每年超过一千万美元的收入，得到了罗斯福总统和美国民众的称赞。他就是雷克斯•斯托特！

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.Insp...(展开全部)

Murder in Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves the traditional three puzzles - "The Vanished Censor, The Smaragdine Dancer, ...(展开全部)

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.Insp...(展开全部)

誘拐され父親に見捨てられた息子。虐待を受けた少年を引き取った精神科医。ガールフレンドに捨てられた男、あこがれの舞台女優に拒絶された少年。そんなやりきれない毎日に、寄り添ってくれる誰か――。美しい構図と研ぎ澄まされたセリフでアメリカの孤独を描き出す、多田由美の傑作短編集。

Cinnamon Bay Plantation on lush, tropical St. John was the ideal Caribbean island getaway; or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman, long overdue for R & R, it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Prickly and priggish, Gen. Hudson T. Decker (Ret.) might h...(展开全部)