UK edition By day the city works. By night it plays, and everyone is invited to the game: the rich the poor, the adventurous and the tame. Sometimes, the playground turns deadly. Sometimes, the homicide detectives from the 87th Precinct are invited, too... The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carell...(展开全部)

One of the best of the Merrivales. The plot is simple (compared to earlier Carr works) but effective, and produces a shocking surprise at the end. In short, the book is an intelligent romance novel with an impossible crime worked in.

约翰·迪克森·卡尔，和阿加莎·克里斯蒂、埃勒里·奎因并称“黄金时代三大家”，独以密室题材构思见长，一生设计出五十余种不同类型的密室，被誉为“密室之王”。 一九三三年，卡尔出版基甸·菲尔博士系列首部作品《女巫角》。第二年，他以笔名卡特·迪克森发表《瘟疫庄谋杀案》，亨利·梅里维尔爵士登场。这两个系列成为卡尔最具代表性的作品。三十年代是卡尔创作生涯最多产的时期，其中《三口棺材》《扭曲的铰链》（旧译《歪曲的枢纽》）和《犹大之窗》被后世评论家归入“卡尔的经典代表作”。特别是一九三五年出版的《三口棺材》以经典的“密室讲义”和“双重密室”成为推理史上不可能犯罪小说的巅峰之作，至今仍难以超越。 卡尔笔下的密室第一神探基甸·菲尔博士，是一个胖胖的字典编纂者，走路要拄两根拐杖，喜欢穿斗篷，抽着海泡石烟斗，个性相当和蔼可亲。他有着敏锐的观察力，善于分析罪犯的心理，出场代表...(展开全部)

One of the best of the Merrivales. The plot is simple (compared to earlier Carr works) but effective, and produces a shocking surprise at the end. In short, the book is an intelligent romance novel with an impossible crime worked in.

约翰·迪克森·卡尔，和阿加莎·克里斯蒂、埃勒里·奎因并称“黄金时代三大家”，独以密室题材构思见长，一生设计出五十余种不同类型的密室，被誉为“密室之王”。 一九三三年，卡尔出版基甸·菲尔博士系列首部作品《女巫角》。第二年，他以笔名卡特·迪克森发表《瘟疫庄谋杀案》，亨利·梅里维尔爵士登场。这两个系列成为卡尔最具代表性的作品。三十年代是卡尔创作生涯最多产的时期，其中《三口棺材》《扭曲的铰链》（旧译《歪曲的枢纽》）和《犹大之窗》被后世评论家归入“卡尔的经典代表作”。特别是一九三五年出版的《三口棺材》以经典的“密室讲义”和“双重密室”成为推理史上不可能犯罪小说的巅峰之作，至今仍难以超越。 卡尔笔下的密室第一神探基甸·菲尔博士，是一个胖胖的字典编纂者，走路要拄两根拐杖，喜欢穿斗篷，抽着海泡石烟斗，个性相当和蔼可亲。他有着敏锐的观察力，善于分析罪犯的心理，出场代表...(展开全部)

In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying...(展开全部)

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in...(展开全部)

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in h...(展开全部)