From the likes of Robert Randisi, Peter Crowther, and Max Rittenberg, these 30 stories of bizarre and impossible crimes will fascinate and intrigue the reader who grapples with their intricate puzzles. A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick. A man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only onceov...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more th...(展开全部)

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News, " winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, "Accordion Crimes, " a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. "Accordion Crimes" opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accord...(展开全部)

Accordion Crimes traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat screwman. The instrument begins its lon...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

Leith Hathout 一位多才多艺的年轻数学天才，并且是一位解题迷，写这本书时他还是加州的一名中学生。他9岁就开始参加美国全国数学竞赛，获得过多种国家级奖项，并在加州 数学联赛中取得了满分的优异成绩。学习之余，他擅长玩SET®游戏，还是一名国家级花剑运动员。

Leith Hathout 一位多才多艺的年轻数学天才，并且是一位解题迷，写这本书时他还是加州的一名中学生。他9岁就开始参加美国全国数学竞赛，获得过多种国家级奖项，并在加州 数学联赛中取得了满分的优异成绩。学习之余，他擅长玩SET®游戏，还是一名国家级花剑运动员。

国际大咖御用专业口才调教师 比尔.麦克高文 艾丽莎.鲍曼 著

保罗•霍尔特（1956－ ） 法国推理文坛的异数，当前最出色的“不可能犯罪”作家。其作品充满了时下流行的暗黑氛围、连环杀人魔、荒郊野外等元素……若不是对密室题材那种执著的信念，就绝对没有他今日的盛名远播！推理小说的黄金时代得以延续，一方面固因读者们的忠心耿耿，另一方面更因有保罗•霍尔特这样坚持不懈的旗手，年复一年对抗着寂寞。