In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death - an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barne...(展开全部)

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death - an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barne...(展开全部)

The 'A-side' of Cheltenham's history as a fashionable Regency spa and subsequent reinvention as a town of colleges, churches and festivals is well documented, but what about its 'flip-side'? Much of t

文／[美] 麦克·巴内特（Mac Barnett） 美国著名图画书作者，作品包括《山姆和大卫去挖洞》《狼、鸭子和老鼠》《穿毛衣的小镇》《比利·推特尔和他的蓝鲸问题》《再猜猜！》《哦，不!》等。2013年，由麦克·巴内特撰文的《穿毛衣的小镇》获得凯迪克银奖；2015年，《山姆和大卫去挖洞》获得凯迪克银奖。麦克还是洛杉矶回声公园“时光之旅”商店的创始人，也是“LA826”组织成员，这个组织是一个提供写作训练和指导的非营利性机构。 图／[加] 乔恩·克拉森（Jon Klassen） 乔恩·克拉森，出生于加拿大，现定居美国加州洛杉矶。他曾经为动画长片、音乐录像带和杂志书刊等绘图，是一位知名的插画家和设计师。他曾在梦工厂动画制片公司、莱卡动画公司工作，并为英国广播公司设计2010年在温哥华举办的冬季奥运会广告动画，赢得英国最大动画奖——影艺学院奖。 2010年...(展开全部)

Every day, Square brings a block out of his cave and pushes it up a steep hill. This is his work. When Circle floats by, she declares Square a genius, a sculptor! "This is a wonderful statue," she says. "It looks just like you!" But now Circle wants a sculpture of her own, a circle! Will the genius manage to create one? Even accidentally?

The beguiling second entry in the innovative shape trilogy by multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. This book is about Square. Square spends every day taking blocks from a pile below the ground to a pile above the ground. This book is also about Square’s friend Circle. Circle thinks Square is an artistic genius. But is he really? With...(展开全部)

In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot her husband dead at the top of a Ferris Wheel. But the deeper he digs, the more complex the case becomes, and Edmund soon finds himself drawn into a nightmarish web of conspiracy and murder. Before long he himself is implicated in n...(展开全部)

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

The Dupayne， a small private museum on the edge of London s Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39， is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder， old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered， and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even a...(展开全部)

P．D．詹姆斯是英国当代最著名的推理小说女作家，被尊称为“推理小说第一夫人”。出生于1920年的P．D．詹姆斯自1950年开始写作，至今笔耕不辍。她已出版近20部作品，她的大部分作品均被拍成电视剧或电影。 P．D.詹姆斯的作品曾经多次获得英美推理小说奖。1987年荣获有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的英国推理小说家协会“钻石匕首奖”终身成就奖，并受英国皇室勋封为女伯爵，1999年荣获美国推理小说家协会大师奖，也曾获爱伦坡奖。P.D.詹姆斯现任英国作家协会主席。