Etsuko has fallen in love with a shy, studious lecturer at a university. But she has to tell her parents she's pregnant to force their agreement to her marriage. Their objection is to the rest of her fianc's family: his father was a war criminal; his deceased younger brother, a murderer. His only respectable relative is a research chemist who says he's too sick to come to the w...(展开全部)

多萝西·L.塞耶斯，侦探小说黄金时代一个不朽的名字，以其塑造的贵族神探彼得·温西勋爵为人熟知。同时她还是杰出的诗人、剧作家、翻译家、神学研究者。 一八九三年，塞耶斯出生于英国牛津一个牧师家庭，很小便开始学习拉丁语和法语，十九岁考入牛津大学，专修中世纪文学，是第一批获得牛津大学学位的女性之一。毕业后她先是任职于出版社，后成为广告公司撰稿人。在此期间，她开始酝酿写作侦探小说，并于一九二三年发表了首部作品《谁的尸体》（Whose Body？），彼得·温西勋爵首次出场。此后，塞耶斯为这位贵族业余神探创作了十多部小说，温西勋爵成为广受读者喜爱的侦探人物。他幽默风趣，出语不凡，学识渊博，爱好收藏珍本书，喜欢品酒、弹钢琴，有个聪明、体贴的男仆，算得上是塞耶斯心目中理想的男人形象。最初他多少有些喜欢卖弄，爱出风头；随着作品的不断问世，塞耶斯让他的个性逐步得到发展，成...(展开全部)

Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. And what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country soon turns into a most baffling case, what with the missp...(展开全部)

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2017 ‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’ On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years ear...(展开全部)

Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn't seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, your hobbies and your ex-boyfriend's name.You go for a drink. This is your first - and last - mistake.You're the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.

The Blue Nowhere will forever change the way you feel about your computer. Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Empty Chair and The Bone Collector, now turns to the labyrinthine world of cyberspace -- a world where safety is elusive, appearances are deceiving, and the most powerful can lose their wealth, their minds, their lives with a hacker's touch of a button. ...(展开全部)

An inspirational book to foster the spirit of exploration and travel. It's about appreciating and seeking out adventure in all travel experiences, whether in the remote regions of Russia or the chaotic streets of Shanghai.

Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fie...(展开全部)

“...this locked-room classic... as in the best such novels, the solution is both plausible and surprising. This fair-play gem reinforces the publisher’s raison d’être.” Publishers WeeklyIs Breule Manor cursed? Can a strange incantation predicting the time of death release an occult spirit to murder time and time again in impossible circumstances and with no clues? As the terror...(展开全部)

Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fie...(展开全部)