ames E. Keirans spent years writing this companion to the works of John Dickson Carr. It is the essential guide to the Henry Merrivale and Gideon Fell novels and historical potboilers written by the acknowledged master of the locked room mystery. Introduced by Keirans and completely indexed, it contains over 300 pages of JDC lore, alphabetized and organized in a readable way.

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urge...(展开全部)

加文·普雷托尔-平尼（Gavin Pretor-Pinney），“赏云学会”创始人，《闲士》（Idler）杂志的创办人之一，著有《云趣》（The Cloudspotter's Guide）一书；爱好观波，凡有波无不观者；现居英国萨默塞特郡。

加文·普雷托尔-平尼（Gavin Pretor-Pinney），“赏云学会”创始人，《闲士》（Idler）杂志的创办人之一，著有《云趣》（The Cloudspotter's Guide）一书；爱好观波，凡有波无不观者；现居英国萨默塞特郡。

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow un...(展开全部)

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow un...(展开全部)

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow ungu...(展开全部)

This volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one choos...(展开全部)