Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

诺顿.杰斯特 他是一个多才多艺的人。他是一名建筑师，被美国汉普郡设计学院聘为名誉教授；他还是一名策划人和专业美食家；但他更为卓越的才华展现在儿童文学创作方面，取得了辉煌的成就，他的许多作品都受到高度赞扬，其中包括改编为动画片后获得奥斯卡大奖的《点与线》。《收费亭里的小米洛》1961年出版于纽约，多次重印，至今为各国小朋友所喜爱，1970年改编为电影《幻象天堂》。他还曾与知名音乐人谢尔顿?哈尼克合作，将此书改编成一部成功的音乐剧，至今仍在上演。 克里斯.拉什卡 毕业于明尼苏达州的圣奥拉夫大学因为一个偶然的机会，他为自己的妻子编辑的一份学校教育杂志画了一些插图，从此，他发现了自己真正喜欢从事的职业，那就是儿童插画师。 任溶溶 我国著名翻译家、儿童文学作家。任溶溶通晓英、俄、意、日四种外语，翻译过许多外国著名的儿童文学作品，如安徒生童话、格林童话、意大利童...(展开全部)

A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained...(展开全部)

In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But hi...(展开全部)

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In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But hi...(展开全部)

A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained...(展开全部)

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo―he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn’t absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude f...(展开全部)

In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic’s caribou herds. He also endured bleak, interminable...(展开全部)