托马斯・布朗爵士于1605年10月19日生于伦敦，1682年去世。他的父亲是一位商人。布朗性 格怪癖，常有新奇的想象，代表作《医生的宗教》、《瓮葬》等。

小说家罗伯特·丹斯卡尔克收到一封针对自己女儿的绑架预告信，作为放弃绑架的代价，犯人要求支付25万美元。看来是因为罗伯特的亡妻露西出身于大富豪斯蒂尔家，犯人抱有期待。罗伯特决定带女儿前往百慕大避难，警方任命罗德警官负责途中保护。虽然在船上接到过一次犯人的恐吓电话，一行人还是平安无事地抵达了百慕大。平安地过了几天，正感觉什么事也不会发生时，罗伯特的女儿和看护她的护士突然失踪。又过了几天，在海边发现了护士惨死的尸体，护士旁边放着腹语术的人偶！

New York Times bestselling astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race. 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lun...(展开全部)

A baffler of the first order. -- New York Times A masterwork...stunningly original. -- Julian Symons Agatha Christie at her best. -- New York Herald Tribune Christie is beyond criticism. -- New Statesman and Nation --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Agatha Christie at her best. (New York Herald Tribune) A baffler of the first order. (New York Times) A masterwork.....(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When Alice Ascher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already on to the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, twenty-five to go. 点击链接进入中文版： ABC谋杀案

The war is over, but the killing is not. Guests, invited and uninvited, gather at the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of love, fame, and money, the first murder victim is discovered then another and another.... The host, his guests, a...(展开全部)

约翰•狄克森•卡尔（1906－1977） 史上最伟大的推理小说作家之一，举世公认的“密室推理之王”。其小说素以公平著称，线索隐蔽，解答惊人，具有超乎寻常的逻辑性、趣味性。他一生共设计了超过五十种密室，几乎每个都是构思精巧、无以复加；又兼其小说一贯具有的浓郁哥特风格，以及其谋篇布局的架构能力之强，自会让读者大呼过瘾，竞相传读。读推理，岂能不读密室；读密室，岂能不读卡尔！