In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . . In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Troja...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂安·里特（Christiane Ritter） 奥地利艺术家、作家，一八九七年出生。一九三四年，里特与丈夫赫尔曼、探险家卡尔一起，在挪威位于北极圈内的斯瓦尔巴群岛，进行了为期一年的极地探险之旅。回到奥地利后，里特根据其经历写就《一个女人，在北极》。其德文版出版于一九三八年，而后有英、法等多语种版本。后定居维也纳，于二〇〇〇年去世。 译者简介： 赖雅静 专业译者，译有《隐页书城》《资本的世界史》等作品。

克里斯蒂安·里特（Christiane Ritter） 奥地利艺术家、作家，一八九七年出生。一九三四年，里特与丈夫赫尔曼、探险家卡尔一起，在挪威位于北极圈内的斯瓦尔巴群岛，进行了为期一年的极地探险之旅。回到奥地利后，里特根据其经历写就《一个女人，在北极》。其德文版出版于一九三八年，而后有英、法等多语种版本。后定居维也纳，于二〇〇〇年去世。 译者简介： 赖雅静 专业译者，译有《隐页书城》《资本的世界史》等作品。

An eerie and sinister evocation of Parisian backstreets and seedy establishments, traversed by the familiar yet enigmatic Inspector Bencolin. Another enthralling literary puzzle from John Dickson Carr, the beloved author of Castle Skull and It Walks By Night, both reissued as British Library Crime Classics. This book also features the bonus short story ‘The Murder in Number Fou...(展开全部)

"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?" Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims ...(展开全部)

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is k...(展开全部)

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat" We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian...(展开全部)

Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members of his crew go aboard the yacht, they find not one male corpse but two. Both ...(展开全部)

The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer's crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck... Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, there certainly is a mystery in the channel. Inspector Fre...(展开全部)

Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members of his crew go aboard the yacht, they find not one male corpse but two. Both ...(展开全部)