Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. ThinkSHADOW OF THE WINDmeets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDERis an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protégé and rival Carl Jung.When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a ...(展开全部)

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. ThinkSHADOW OF THE WINDmeets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDERis an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protégé and rival Carl Jung.When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a ...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. The Muder Of Roger Ackroyd Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her hus...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's most audacious crime mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her...(展开全部)

In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the ‘perfectÂ’ murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boysÂ’ weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Throughout history, some books have changed the worl...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. The Muder Of Roger Ackroyd Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her hus...(展开全部)

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on y...(展开全部)

李察·霍爾（Richard Hull, 1896-1973） 英國作家，原名Richard Henry Sampson，一生本業為會計師。 一九三零年代投入犯罪小說寫作行列，處女作即為《謀殺我姑媽》，此篇小說甫一推出，書評界立刻高呼歡迎新作家來到，稱 讚赫爾有「刻薄的聰慧」。 他的作品受到Francis Isles 的影響，運用「反向」描寫方式，故事主人翁常是令人討厭的各式類型，故事的架構則有不同的錯綜複雜，非常具有實驗性。相較於與他同年代某些情節太過離奇的犯罪小說，他的小說內容顯得平實可信，人物描寫生動真實，尖刻的黑色幽默尤其令人絕倒。 霍爾一生共寫了十五本小說，這些作品已使他列名為三零年代最具創意及才華的小說家行列。