Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are so...(展开全部)

罗斯•麦唐诺（Ross Macdonald，1915—1983） 罗斯•麦唐纳（Ross Macdonald,1915-1983），本名肯尼斯•米勒，美国推理作家协会终身大师奖、英国推理作家协会金匕首奖，曾任美国推理作家协会主席，公认的冷硬派推理小说名家。 众多研究犯罪、推理小说名家持续不断地探讨其作品的魅力，《纽约时报》书评称他突破了推理小说的类型限制，成功跻身为“一位主流的美国小说家”。知名作家村上春树、劳伦斯•布洛克（著有《八百万种死法》）、斯蒂格•拉森（著有《龙纹身的女孩》）、约翰•康纳利（著有《失物之书》等作家皆在不同的场合向这位前辈致敬，称自己从他的作品中受益良多。

罗斯•麦唐诺（Ross Macdonald，1915—1983） 罗斯•麦唐纳（Ross Macdonald,1915-1983），本名肯尼斯•米勒，美国推理作家协会终身大师奖、英国推理作家协会金匕首奖，曾任美国推理作家协会主席，公认的冷硬派推理小说名家。 众多研究犯罪、推理小说名家持续不断地探讨其作品的魅力，《纽约时报》书评称他突破了推理小说的类型限制，成功跻身为“一位主流的美国小说家”。知名作家村上春树、劳伦斯•布洛克（著有《八百万种死法》）、斯蒂格•拉森（著有《龙纹身的女孩》）、约翰•康纳利（著有《失物之书》等作家皆在不同的场合向这位前辈致敬，称自己从他的作品中受益良多。

Anthony Galton disappeared almost 20 years ago. Now his aging--and very rich--mother has hired Lew Archer to bring him back. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a suspicious heir, and a con man whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them.

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are so...(展开全部)

Discovered after his death, in 2003, Bolano left this novel complete as a typewritten manuscript - meticulously corrected by hand - it is published in English translation for the first time. Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Rei...(展开全部)

Bleak absurdity, deadpan humor and brilliant inventiveness mark this novel as one of the most important in Irish literature. Set in a disquieting other-world where people can become bicycles and dimensions shift without warning, the novel is footnoted with the extraordinary tale of a philosopher and his obsessed commentators.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' -- Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is co...(展开全部)

"The Third Policeman" is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its ...(展开全部)

Love is in the air—but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either, but that's a small consolation. An unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the d...(展开全部)