保罗·霍尔特 Paul Halter 当代推理小说大师，被誉为“黄金时代推理小说最后的捍卫者”，其作品16次上榜日本四大推理小说海外榜单。 1956年，霍尔特生于法国，在青年时读完了阿加莎·克里斯蒂的全部作品，立志成为一名推理作家。成年后的霍尔特曾加入法国海军陆战队，卖过保险，做过电气工程师，甚至利用业余时间做吉他手增加收入。 霍尔特已创作四十多部作品，题材多是密室和不可能犯罪。他极其擅长营造阴森的灵异氛围，作品里多出现鬼魂、魔法、恶魔、通灵等超自然元素，最后却能给出逻辑严密的解答。霍尔特利用其高超的架构故事的能力，精妙的气氛营造手法，将诡计与超自然元素完美结合，征服了一大批读者。 《第四扇门》是霍尔特的出道成名作，荣获日本本格推理大奖海外榜TOP1，汇集了密室、凶宅、雪地无足迹等诸多令人血脉偾张的要素，带有幽灵般的气氛，极具阅读快感。

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks hersel...(展开全部)

The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her c...(展开全部)

A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever crossed her threshold. Only a great drama in the writer's life prompts Emerence to...(展开全部)

A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever crossed her threshold. Only a great drama in the writer's life prompts Emerence to...(展开全部)

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks hersel...(展开全部)

The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her c...(展开全部)

约翰·欧文John Irving 当代文坛无可争议的小说宗师，被公认为在世作家中数一数二的角色。他的作品在赢得文坛推崇的同时深受大众喜爱，被翻译成35种文字，世界各地的书店里几乎都能买到欧文的小说。评论界认为欧文是罕见的承袭了现实主义文学精髓的作家，将他誉为“狄更斯再世”。 ◆日本作家村上春树曾表示，欧文是自己的文学偶像。他曾将欧文作品译介到日本，采访过欧文，还与欧文在纽约中央公园一同慢跑。 ◆欧文作品曾三次入围美国国家图书奖，1980年凭借《盖普眼中的世界》摘得桂冠。 ◆欧文作品在好莱坞也炙手可热，曾有5部小说被改编成电影，他本人也是一名杰出编剧。1999年，欧文以《苹果酒屋的规则》拿下奥斯卡金像奖改编剧本奖。 ◆欧文代表作《苹果酒屋的规则》《独居的一年》和《第四只手》均登上过《纽约时报》畅销榜榜首，成为当年炙手可热的经典之作。 ◆欧文1942年生...(展开全部)

While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. But what if the donor’s widow demands visitation rights with the hand? In answering this unexpected question, John Irv...(展开全部)

While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. But what if the donor’s widow demands visitation rights with the hand? In answering this unexpected question, John Irv...(展开全部)