'Don't talk bunk ' said Mr Douglas. 'You can't carry on with the show with a man dying on stage. Drop the curtain ' When Douglas B. Douglas - leading light of the London theatre - premieres his new musical extravaganza, Blue Music, he is sure the packed house will be dazzled by the performance. What he couldn't predict is the death of his star, Brandon Baker, on stage in the mi...(展开全部)

The author, Alan Melville, was a successful playwright and man of the theatre, and he uses his knowledge of backstage life to good effect in this breezy whodunit. The slender plot revolves around the shooting of the leading man, but when the show opens at the Grosvenor Theatre to a packed house, Brandon Baker is killed by a real bullet. When another member of the company is fou...(展开全部)

Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last.

Cherished household items are mysteriously disappearing. And a rotund little boy feels ill. What'?s a mother to do? Why, call the doctor, quick, quick, quick After one look at the boy, the doctor decides to operate and investigate. But no one is quite prepared for what he finds. Acclaimed children'?s author and illustrator, Remy Charlip, presents an updated and expanded versio...(展开全部)

Cherished household items are mysteriously disappearing. And a rotund little boy feels ill. What'?s a mother to do? Why, call the doctor, quick, quick, quick After one look at the boy, the doctor decides to operate and investigate. But no one is quite prepared for what he finds. Acclaimed children'?s author and illustrator, Remy Charlip, presents an updated and expanded versio...(展开全部)

简介：八强失败，换了教练，席卷重来？教练套路多，一走一个坑。走过最深的路，是谁的路？教练的套路!

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nu...(展开全部)

简介：八强失败，换了教练，席卷重来？教练套路多，一走一个坑。走过最深的路，是谁的路？教练的套路!

Lua is a small, powerful and extendable scripting/programming language that can be used for learning to program, and writing games and applications, or as an embedded scripting language. There are many popular commercial projects that allow you to modify or extend them through Lua scripting, and this book will get you ready for that. This book is the easiest way to learn Lua. It introduces you to the basics of Lua and helps you to understand the problems it solves. You will work with the basic language features, the libraries Lua provides, and powerful topics such as object-oriented programming. Every aspect of programming in Lua, variables, data types, functions, tables, arrays and objects, is covered in sufficient detail for you to get started. You will also find out about Lua's module system and how to interface with the operating system.After reading this book, you will be ready to use Lua as a programming language to write code that can interface with the operating system, automate tasks, make playable games, and much more. This book is a solid starting point for those who want to learn Lua in order to move onto other technologies such as Love2D or Roblox.A quick start guide is a focused, shorter title that provides a faster paced introduction to a technology. It is designed for people who don't need all the details at this point in their learning curve. This presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.

Python's standard unittest module is based on the xUnit family of frameworks, which has its origins in Smalltalk and Java, and tends to be verbose to use and not easily extensible.The pytest framework on the other hand is very simple to get started, but powerful enough to cover complex testing integration scenarios, being considered by many the true Pythonic approach to testing in Python.In this book, you will learn how to get started right away and get the most out of pytest in your daily workflow, exploring powerful mechanisms and plugins to facilitate many common testing tasks. You will also see how to use pytest in existing unittest-based test suites and will learn some tricks to make the jump to a pytest-style test suite quickly and easily.