Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982 ) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971 ), to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dan...(展开全部)

Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982 ) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971 ), to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dan...(展开全部)

希臘裔的藝術經紀商喬治•卡奇斯，因心臟衰竭病逝於自家書房。葬禮舉行的那一天，秘書瓊安•布瑞特覺得不對勁：「氣氛有些緊張。」沒來由的女性直覺竟應驗了一連串謀殺案的發生。葬禮結束後，律師烏哲夫遍尋不著卡奇斯的遺囑。沒有人進出放有遺囑的房間、收放在保險箱裡的遺囑不翼而飛，找遍整個宅第毫無所獲。是誰偷了遺囑？新舊遺囑間的差異是犯人行竊的動機嗎？聰明的艾勒里做出結論：只剩一個可以藏遺囑的地方還沒搜過，那就是...... 萬萬沒想到，在艾勒里推測的藏遺囑處，竟出現了第二具屍體！卡奇斯家族的秘密，似乎未隨喬治•卡奇斯的死去，收隱在那具希臘棺材裡。事件接二連三的發生，艾勒里•昆恩也開始犯下讓他信心全失的錯誤。他該怎麼挽回頹勢、揪出真兇呢？

希臘裔的藝術經紀商喬治•卡奇斯，因心臟衰竭病逝於自家書房。葬禮舉行的那一天，秘書瓊安•布瑞特覺得不對勁：「氣氛有些緊張。」沒來由的女性直覺竟應驗了一連串謀殺案的發生。葬禮結束後，律師烏哲夫遍尋不著卡奇斯的遺囑。沒有人進出放有遺囑的房間、收放在保險箱裡的遺囑不翼而飛，找遍整個宅第毫無所獲。是誰偷了遺囑？新舊遺囑間的差異是犯人行竊的動機嗎？聰明的艾勒里做出結論：只剩一個可以藏遺囑的地方還沒搜過，那就是...... 萬萬沒想到，在艾勒里推測的藏遺囑處，竟出現了第二具屍體！卡奇斯家族的秘密，似乎未隨喬治•卡奇斯的死去，收隱在那具希臘棺材裡。事件接二連三的發生，艾勒里•昆恩也開始犯下讓他信心全失的錯誤。他該怎麼挽回頹勢、揪出真兇呢？

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

克莱顿•劳森（1906－1971） 著名的“推理巫师”，具有编辑、作家、魔术师等多重身份，美国推理作家协会（MWA）的四大创始人物之一。其小说一方面融汇着魔术表演的基本原理，奇招迭出、别开生面，让读者深受震撼；另一方面又不时现身说法，给读者讲解些简易魔术，而这又往往契合着小说的谋杀诡计，堪称匠心独运、只此一家。劳森曾以“马里尼”之名登台表演魔术，所以这名字便自然见诸他的小说，如此遂有推理史上名动一时的“魔术师侦探”——马里尼大师。 一切皆有可能！

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit th...(展开全部)

Alexis Zorba, the hero of this novel by NIkos Kazantzakis, author of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, is a Greek workman who accompanies the narrator to Crete. Zorba is a figure created on a huge scale: his years have not dimmed the flame by which he lives, the gusto with which he responds to all that life offers him, whether he is supervising laborers at a mine, coping with mad m...(展开全部)

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit th...(展开全部)