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)

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)

范达因（S.S.Van Dine），美国推理小说之父，《菲洛·万斯探案集》是他惟一的代表作，也是古典推理小说的集大成之作。他将推理小说中的理性成分演绎到极至，这个成就“前无古人，后无来者”。范达因所撰写的《推理小说二十条守则》是推理小说史上最全面、最完整、最严谨的写作戒律，同时也被奎恩等后来者奉为指导其毕生写作的“圣经”。

戦死したとされていた元同僚が、突然の便りとともに帰国。　そして久しぶりに昔のオフィスに顔を出し、かつての仲間とともに即席の帰国歓迎会となったが、それも束の間の間に、一転して「殺人」の舞台と化す─全員に振舞われたコーヒーのひとつに、いつのまにか毒薬が仕込まれていたのだった。 誰一人として犯行の瞬間を知らず、しかも当然あるべきはずの「毒薬の容器」さえ見つからない！！　衆人環視の密室状態下で、いったい誰が、いかにしてこの大胆な犯行をなしえたのか、そしてその動機とは……。 被害者たちをめぐる複雑な人間関係と、「容疑者たち」の不可解な言動の数々をまえに、探偵ナイジェル・ストレンジウェイズは何を読み取り、いかなる「結論」を導き出すのか。　徹底的に論理にこだわった本格「フーダニット」ミステリの傑作、ついに登場！！

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the of...(展开全部)

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)

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder Club