"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)

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take 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 wants a game of tennis. What else he wants pr...(展开全部)

The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. ...(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)

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)

Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than all the rest. But in this compelling book, Robert Boyd argues tha...(展开全部)