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)

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)