The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevato...(展开全部)

The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevato...(展开全部)

A master criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro.

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

In The Big Book of Beasts, Yuval Zommer’s wonderful illustrations bring to whimsical life some of the grizzliest, hairiest, bravest, wiliest, and most fearsome beasts in the animal kingdom. Brimming with interesting facts from beast consultant Barbara Taylor, this charming picture book is a beautiful way for parents to introduce young children to the animal world―and for older ...(展开全部)

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

Ryuhei, a would-be film director, has just been dumped by his girl friend and his drunken threats to kill her have made him the prime suspect, as she has just been murdered. His alibi is that he was watching a film in his friend’s home movie theatre at the time. Unfortunately, his friend has also been stabbed to death in his bathroom, with the door to the apartment locked with ...(展开全部)

土耳其作家奥尔罕·帕慕克被认为是当代欧洲最核心的三位文学家之一（此说备考，尚不知另外两位为谁），是享誉国际的土耳其文坛巨擘。1952年出生于伊斯坦堡，在伊斯坦布尔科技大学主修建筑。 1979年第一部作品《塞夫得特州长和他的儿子们》得到《土而其日报》小说首奖，并在1982年出版，1983年再度赢得奥尔罕·凯马尔小说奖。 1983年出版第二本小说《寂静的房子》，并于1991年获得得到欧洲发现奖，同年出版法文版。 1985年出版第一本历史小说《白色城堡》，这本小说让他享誉全球，纽约时报书评称他：“一位新星正在东方诞生——土耳其作家奥尔罕.帕慕克。”这本书荣获1990年美国外国小说独立奖。 1990年出版《黑书》是一个里程碑，这本小说让他在土耳其文学圈备受争议的同时也广受一般读者喜爱。法文版获得了法兰西文化奖。1992年他以这本小说为蓝本，完成《隐蔽的脸》的...(展开全部)

When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzz...(展开全部)