这是从类似于怪谈的一个故事开始的，Dallings在晚上回家的途中迷路了，在伦敦的大雾中，他隐约看到一扇窗户上有绞刑架的阴影，上面吊着一个类似于人的物体……几天后的晚上，苏格兰场的Talbot探长接到一通神秘的电话，声称一个叫El Moulk的人将会在Ruination Street被处以绞刑。当他由于伦敦没有这样的街道而以为这是个玩笑时，另一个消息传来，来访的Bencolin正带人在伦敦城追逐一辆疯狂行驶的轿车，车上除了早已死亡的司机之外空无一人。那辆车正好属于El Moulk，而El Moulk之前也收到了来自一个叫Jack Ketch的人的恐吓信，更在那天从此失踪，消失在了那个叫Ruination Street的地方……

这是从类似于怪谈的一个故事开始的，Dallings在晚上回家的途中迷路了，在伦敦的大雾中，他隐约看到一扇窗户上有绞刑架的阴影，上面吊着一个类似于人的物体……几天后的晚上，苏格兰场的Talbot探长接到一通神秘的电话，声称一个叫El Moulk的人将会在Ruination Street被处以绞刑。当他由于伦敦没有这样的街道而以为这是个玩笑时，另一个消息传来，来访的Bencolin正带人在伦敦城追逐一辆疯狂行驶的轿车，车上除了早已死亡的司机之外空无一人。那辆车正好属于El Moulk，而El Moulk之前也收到了来自一个叫Jack Ketch的人的恐吓信，更在那天从此失踪，消失在了那个叫Ruination Street的地方……

A third title from John Dickson Carr’s incredibly popular ‘Inspector Bencolin’ series, this story takes place between previous British Library Crime Classic titles It Walks By Night and Castle Skull. John Dickson Carr remains one of the most influential and popular authors in Classic Crime fiction, and this fantastic early novel has been out of print for decades. This book also...(展开全部)

John Dickson Carr lays on the macabre atmosphere again in this follow up to It Walks by Night in which Inspector Bencolin attempts to piece together a puzzle involving a disappearing street, a set of gallows which mysteriously reveals itself to a number of figures traipsing through the London fog, and the bizarre suggestion that a kind of fictional bogeyman, Jack Ketch, may be ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 'The Lost' is the story of an odyssey in search of six ...(展开全部)

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpecte...(展开全部)

The unmissable sequel to the bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but new in form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. Written to be read aloud, calling to forest, field, riverbank, ocean...(展开全部)