These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection desp...(展开全部)

'This is Francis writing at his very best' Evening Standard Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back. In Come to Grief he faces new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in deep affection. On the morning set for th...(展开全部)

The Washington Post calls Come to Paddington Fair “a masterpiece.” The death scene of a West End play goes horribly wrong in front of a matinee audience to which someone has invited a Scotland Yard inspector and his detective friend. But was the heroine shot by the stage gun fired by her jealous lover, or by the mystery man alone in a stage-side box? Apparently neither could ha...(展开全部)

德里克·史密斯（1927-2003），本名德里克·豪·史密斯，英国侦探小说作家、密室研究家。史密斯深受约翰·狄克森·卡尔的影响，创作了挑战不可能犯罪的长篇处女作《召唤恶魔》（1953），在许多密室书单上都可以见到其身影。但是，之后创作的长篇小说《致命舞台》和《雕塑家之死》一直未能在欧美正式出版，只有前者于1997年在日本私人出版，因数量稀少成为价格不菲的珍本书。直到2014年，史密斯三部作品英文版才在美国推出，同时中文版也与中国读者见面。

德里克·史密斯（1927-2003），本名德里克·豪·史密斯，英国侦探小说作家、密室研究家。史密斯深受约翰·狄克森·卡尔的影响，创作了挑战不可能犯罪的长篇处女作《召唤恶魔》（1953），在许多密室书单上都可以见到其身影。但是，之后创作的长篇小说《致命舞台》和《雕塑家之死》一直未能在欧美正式出版，只有前者于1997年在日本私人出版，因数量稀少成为价格不菲的珍本书。直到2014年，史密斯三部作品英文版才在美国推出，同时中文版也与中国读者见面。

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault,...(展开全部)

If You Come to Earth is a glorious guide to our home planet, and a call for us to take care of both Earth and each other.

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction feature...(展开全部)

小時候，修常和小他兩歲的表弟道隆玩在一起。然而隨著年紀漸長，關係也慢慢疏遠了。卻因著親戚的婚禮，兩人再度相逢，也喚醒了修在大學時代，曾和道隆發生肉體關係的記憶。藉著酒醉，兩人的軀體再度結合在一起 這份感情，究竟是從何而來呢？正因彼此有血緣關係，修和道隆感受到雙重的罪惡感......