Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since. Then the town's peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the r...(展开全部)

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since. Then the town's peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the r...(展开全部)

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since. Then the town's peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the r...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably e...(展开全部)

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in...(展开全部)

约翰•迪克森•卡尔，和阿加莎•克里斯蒂、埃勒里•奎因并称“推理黄金时代三大家”，独以密室题材构思见长，一生设计出五十余种不同类型的密室，被誉为“密室之王”。 一九三三年，卡尔出版基甸•菲尔博士系列首部作品《女巫角》。第二年他以笔名卡特•迪克森发表《瘟疫庄谋杀案》，亨利•梅利维尔爵士登场。这两个系列成为卡尔最具代表性的作品。三十年代是卡尔创作生涯最多产的时期，其中《三口棺材》《扭曲的铰链》（旧译《歪曲的枢纽》）和《犹大之窗》被后世评论家归入“卡尔的经典代表作”。特别是一九三五年出版的《三口棺材》以经典的“密室讲义”和“双重密室”成为推理史上不可能犯罪小说的巅峰之作，至今仍难以超越。 卡尔笔下的密室第一神探基甸•菲尔博士，是一个胖胖的字典编纂者，走路要拄两根拐杖，喜欢穿斗篷，抽着海泡石烟斗，个性相当和蔼可亲。他有着敏锐的观察力，善于分析罪犯的心理，出场代...(展开全部)

作者简介 伊塔马尔·维埃拉·茹尼尔（Itamar Vieira Júnior），1979年出生于巴伊亚州萨尔瓦多市，巴西作家，巴伊亚联邦大学民族学与非洲研究博士。2017年，出版短篇小说集《刽子手的祈祷》（A Oração do Carrasco），获巴西雅布提文学奖提名。后又出版长篇小说《歪犁》（Torto Arado），获葡萄牙莱亚文学奖与雅布提文学奖。《歪犁》自2019年在巴西问世以来，销量累计超过40万册，始终占据巴西文学畅销榜前列。 译者简介 毛凤麟，北京大学外国语学院硕士研究生，葡语文学译者，译有马查多·德·阿西斯《借钱》（O Empréstimo）。

作者简介 伊塔马尔·维埃拉·茹尼尔（Itamar Vieira Júnior），1979年出生于巴伊亚州萨尔瓦多市，巴西作家，巴伊亚联邦大学民族学与非洲研究博士。2017年，出版短篇小说集《刽子手的祈祷》（A Oração do Carrasco），获巴西雅布提文学奖提名。后又出版长篇小说《歪犁》（Torto Arado），获葡萄牙莱亚文学奖与雅布提文学奖。《歪犁》自2019年在巴西问世以来，销量累计超过40万册，始终占据巴西文学畅销榜前列。 译者简介 毛凤麟，北京大学外国语学院硕士研究生，葡语文学译者，译有马查多·德·阿西斯《借钱》（O Empréstimo）。

As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic Greek tragedy.

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles, threatening the homes of some of the city's wealthiest families, Archer unearths a hidden history of failed marriages, runaway ...(展开全部)