ames E. Keirans spent years writing this companion to the works of John Dickson Carr. It is the essential guide to the Henry Merrivale and Gideon Fell novels and historical potboilers written by the acknowledged master of the locked room mystery. Introduced by Keirans and completely indexed, it contains over 300 pages of JDC lore, alphabetized and organized in a readable way.

ames E. Keirans spent years writing this companion to the works of John Dickson Carr. It is the essential guide to the Henry Merrivale and Gideon Fell novels and historical potboilers written by the acknowledged master of the locked room mystery. Introduced by Keirans and completely indexed, it contains over 300 pages of JDC lore, alphabetized and organized in a readable way.

John Dickson Carr was one of the most prolific and popular mystery authors from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing more than 80 novels and collections of short stories, at least 200 book-review columns for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and numerous radio scripts for the BBC and CBS. Carr's specialty was the locked-room mystery, in which a crime, usually a murder, is commit...(展开全部)

This first full-length treatment of Lenin's studies of Hegel presents Lenin as a major figure in Hegelian Marxism, providing a more nuanced portrait of his work than that of either official Marxist-Leninism or most Western accounts. "With impressive argumentation and wide-ranging scholarship, Anderson presents us with a Lenin that no one seriously interested in current debates ...(展开全部)

Still the only full-length study of the achievements and limitations of Lenin's extensive writings on Hegel, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism has become a minor classic. In a full critical account, the book connects his “dialectics” to his renowned writings on imperialism, anti-colonial movements, and the state. It takes up as well the debate over Lenin's writings on Hegel amo...(展开全部)

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urge...(展开全部)

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urge...(展开全部)

"A remarkable book by the master. Reading it is a great experience". (Henning Mankell, "Daily Telegraph"). An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wa...(展开全部)