A millionaire's been found stabbed in the back on his private golf course. Hercule Poirot finds no shortage of suspects in the victim's family tree, but even he is surprised when the killer strikes again.

在线阅读本书 A millionaire's been found stabbed in the back on his private golf course. Hercule Poirot finds no shortage of suspects in the victim's family tree, but even he is surprised when the killer strikes again.

在线阅读本书 A millionaire's been found stabbed in the back on his private golf course. Hercule Poirot finds no shortage of suspects in the victim's family tree, but even he is surprised when the killer strikes again.

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a...(展开全部)

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a...(展开全部)

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot her husband dead at the top of a Ferris Wheel. But the deeper he digs, the more complex the case becomes, and Edmund soon finds himself drawn into a nightmarish web of conspiracy and murder. Before long he himself is implicated in n...(展开全部)

The Dupayne， a small private museum on the edge of London s Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39， is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder， old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered， and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even a...(展开全部)