One night, Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon-vivant, finds the body of an elderly woman in an Oxford toyshop, and is hit on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. A quirky and appealing mystery for fans of classic crime.

洋娃娃不見了，老婆婆不知死到哪裡去了，玩具店一夜之間竟變成了雜貨店…… 英國詩人凱德根，抵達牛津已是午夜時分。他走在夜深人靜的街道上，想找個地方暫歇一宿，結果一個意外的抉擇，他走進了大門未鎖的玩具店，發現了一具女屍，接著在驚慌中被人敲昏頭，醒來時玩具店不但不見了，而且還變成了雜貨店！更荒謬的是，幾天之後這家玩具店，居然出現在另一個地點！這究竟是怎麼回事？是魔法？是詛咒？其中隱藏什麼不可告人的陰謀？ 故事乍聽之下很恐怖，其實這是一部結合「犯罪小說」和「輕喜劇」的最佳典範！這個異想天開的乾坤大挪移橋段，連好萊塢也曾拿去用過。作者克里斯賓本業是電影配樂大師，他所寫出的學院喜劇推理小說讓一位瘋癲教授成功登場！這位喬維斯．費恩是牛津大學英文系系主任，也是一位迷人的人物，他幽默、聰明、果斷，每日開著他誇張的跑車在牛津大學城裡橫衝直撞，目中無人；說起話來引...(展开全部)

洋娃娃不見了，老婆婆不知死到哪裡去了，玩具店一夜之間竟變成了雜貨店…… 英國詩人凱德根，抵達牛津已是午夜時分。他走在夜深人靜的街道上，想找個地方暫歇一宿，結果一個意外的抉擇，他走進了大門未鎖的玩具店，發現了一具女屍，接著在驚慌中被人敲昏頭，醒來時玩具店不但不見了，而且還變成了雜貨店！更荒謬的是，幾天之後這家玩具店，居然出現在另一個地點！這究竟是怎麼回事？是魔法？是詛咒？其中隱藏什麼不可告人的陰謀？ 故事乍聽之下很恐怖，其實這是一部結合「犯罪小說」和「輕喜劇」的最佳典範！這個異想天開的乾坤大挪移橋段，連好萊塢也曾拿去用過。作者克里斯賓本業是電影配樂大師，他所寫出的學院喜劇推理小說讓一位瘋癲教授成功登場！這位喬維斯．費恩是牛津大學英文系系主任，也是一位迷人的人物，他幽默、聰明、果斷，每日開著他誇張的跑車在牛津大學城裡橫衝直撞，目中無人；說起話來引...(展开全部)

One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning the world is shattered and she's forced to leave her childhood home. She is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met. There, she meets Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless; and brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop...(展开全部)

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)

In "The Moving Body, " translated into English for the first time, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks and counter-masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns: all the famous Lecoq techniques are include here. "The Moving Body" is the written legacy of a great theatrical imagination.

Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets -- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symming...(展开全部)

罗斯•麦克唐纳（Ross MacDonald，1915-1983） 罗斯•麦克唐纳，本名肯尼斯•米勒，生于美国加州，是著名的高学历作家，拥有文学博士头衔。他曾服役于美国海军情报局，退役后在母校密歇根大学执教。二十三岁时，麦克唐纳与著名的侦探小说家玛格丽特•米勒结为夫妇。受妻子影响，他开始涉足犯罪小说的创作。前四部作品均以本名发表，第五部长篇小说《移动飞靶》发表时，取笔名为罗斯•麦克唐纳。 麦克唐纳幼年丧父，唯一的女儿又因脑出血离世，因此他笔下的故事总被浓郁的悲伤气氛所笼罩，“亲子分离”也是他擅长描写的主题。其作品文笔优美，心理描写细腻深刻，用词简约，韵味悠长。在处理犯罪的心理层面上，若说他是最写实、并对后代作家最具启发性的侦探小说大师，并不为过。他的角色心理深度超越了所有同类型的作品；对各种角色的处理不像钱德勒那样爱下结论，他总是留给角色一些“不解...(展开全部)