克里斯蒂安娜•布兰德（1907－1988） 推理小说黄金时期的最后一位大师，推理小说史上的传奇女子。1941年，当推理小说全盘出现桎梏之际，她竟陆续推出了两部小说，而数年之后，更以一部《绿色危机》敲开无数读者心扉。1946年，她顺利加入了门槛颇高的英国侦探作家俱乐部，自此益发佳作不断，备受瞩目。1972至1973年间，布兰德以其杰出的成就，荣任英国犯罪作家协会主席。

克里斯蒂安娜•布兰德（1907－1988） 推理小说黄金时期的最后一位大师，推理小说史上的传奇女子。1941年，当推理小说全盘出现桎梏之际，她竟陆续推出了两部小说，而数年之后，更以一部《绿色危机》敲开无数读者心扉。1946年，她顺利加入了门槛颇高的英国侦探作家俱乐部，自此益发佳作不断，备受瞩目。1972至1973年间，布兰德以其杰出的成就，荣任英国犯罪作家协会主席。

First published in 1947, this classic mystery is the next Christianna Brand mystery to be republished in the British Library Crime Classics series, following Green for Danger (2022) and Death of Jezebel (2022). It boasts Brand's knack for memorable characters and misdirection. “Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist.” – Th...(展开全部)

First published in 1947, this classic mystery is the next Christianna Brand mystery to be republished in the British Library Crime Classics series, following Green for Danger (2022) and Death of Jezebel (2022). It boasts Brand's knack for memorable characters and misdirection. “Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist.” – Th...(展开全部)

Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknam...(展开全部)

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Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's ow...(展开全部)

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's ow...(展开全部)