A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

After the death of his wife, New York City detective Dave heads west to the small town Mesa Grande, Colorado, and takes a job as Chief Investigator for the Public Defender. When a rivalry between two professors at the nearby college reaches a deadly level, it is with the help of his visiting Mom — a wise, tough, shrewd Jewish New Yorker — that Dave untangles a complex puzzle th...(展开全部)

Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

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！！