Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

Synopsis Agatha Christie''s first ever Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. ''Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,'' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ''would be doing the world at large a service!'' It was a careless remark fo...(展开全部)

老拉萨作为吐蕃王朝的首府都城，至少可以向前追溯十三四个世纪。藏史春秋、雪城沧桑，在闪闪发光的巍峨金顶的俯视下，缓慢而笨重地流过布达拉宫脚下。这里不仅有辉煌的历史文化遗传，还有千百年来朴实的游牧精神。老拉萨，是僧侣的拉萨、贵族的拉萨、商人、乞丐、朝圣者、探险家的拉萨。是什么样的诱惑，促使纪实文学作家马丽华情不自禁地回过头去张望过往岁月？作为久负盛名的历史文化名城老拉萨，正像长长的一卷老照片，意味深长。用心地端详着它，可以从那上面读出了晴空丽日，也读出了风云漫卷……本书为其英文精装本。

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)

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(展开全部)

Appointed to conquer the 'crime capital of the world', the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth, and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light. The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of t...(展开全部)

简介：胜者为王，败者为寇

What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? July 24, 1911, was a day for the history books. For on that rainy morning, the young Yale professor Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and encountered an ancient city in the clouds: the now famous ci...(展开全部)

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the ...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)