戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们
玛雅·卡斯特利克编图的《男孩与房子》是一本无字书，讲述了一个男孩跟随一只猫进入了一栋房子，然后根据猫咪或折纸等提示来到了这栋房子的阁楼。在这种阁楼里，又会有什么秘密在等着他去发掘呢？
玛雅·卡斯特利克编图的《男孩与房子》是一本无字书，讲述了一个男孩跟随一只猫进入了一栋房子，然后根据猫咪或折纸等提示来到了这栋房子的阁楼。在这种阁楼里，又会有什么秘密在等着他去发掘呢？
'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah. The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. With these two classic novels,A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four,you have the brilliant foudation of the Sherlock Holmes canon.Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer.
Cindy Harper has an ice-cream flavor for every emotion. Vanilla caramel fudge eases the stress of dealing with her weird and wacky guests at the Woo Woo Inn. But no sweet treat from her freezer is smooth, creamy, or tempting enough to cool down her dark fantasies about Thrain Davis. Thrain is a man to be enjoyed on a strictly primitive level. Every woman who’s ever seen him smile wonders about the pleasure his mouth could give her and recognizes the secrets in his hard blue gaze. Too late Cindy realizes the danger of inviting an ancient vampire into her inn. The concept of fanged creatures of the night scares her witless. Besides, he forces her to examine her past when she’s just fine with her present. He does have an upside, though. Who needs ice cream when you have a hot and yummy immortal in your bed? 作者简介： NINA BANGS，I've always enjoyed stories with strong relationships and happy endings. So it's not surprising that romance novels have been one of my mainstays through the yea
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
What's the truth behind the legend of the hound of theBaskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast that's haunting the lonelymoors? Enter Sherlock Holmes to find the answer, in this, the onlyfull-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the mostpopular and enduring detective series ever written.
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tinyfishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to joina railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station--anda mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered thefloor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayostepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no wayof knowing the course of his life would change forever--and that hewould become entangled with a band of Civil War veterans with ascore to settle against the government...and a feisty young womanwho'd risk anything to save the people she loved. Cris Mayo, whohad never backed away from a fight in his life, was about to havehis courage put to the ultimate test.
He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when youngTom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on afast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had bigdreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figuredthat a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect forthe job. He didn't know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headedhis way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent onsettling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it.Tom had himself stuck in the middle of the feud before sunset onhis first day in town. All he could do was hope that his years onthe Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himselfalive.
This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his Queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.
A collection of tales of the frontier features the story ofBud Miles, who must bury his father to become a man, Tell Sackett'stransport of dangerous freight across the country, and LaurieBonnet, a mail-order bride. Reissue.
They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endlessdistances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the SierraNevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor ofIndian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left hisheart--and his home--in the West. They were women like LilithPrescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell fora gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. Thesepioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with theircourage--and with their blood. Here is the story of how their pathswould meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies andnature's cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamedWest.
When the body of a young woman is found embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek iut takes little time to indentify her.Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism and her picture is on police computers all across America.But how did she die?And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? In a devastating journey of discovery that takes us from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountatins Tbe Divide tells the story of a family fractured by betrayal It explores the pain we inflict on those we love the most and charts the passions and needs the dashed hopes and disillusionments that connect and divide all men and women.
娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。…………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag mixes mysteryand romance in this moving classic novel of a missing woman and thesearch that brings together the unlikeliest of lovers.... She was ablond goddess, a box office megastar. Every woman wanted to be her;every man wanted to bed her. But over a year ago Devon Staffordvanished without a trace. As a biographer, Jake Gannon had taughthimself to follow the clues of a person's life story like adetective. As an ex-Marine, he was accustomed to being firmly incontrol. But when his car died in a little town called Mare's Neston the Carolina coast, he had to admit he'd come to a dead end.There he met a .38-toting tow-truck driver named Dixie La Fontaine.She was no celebrity, but Dixie had an irresistible sex appeal allher own. What did this down-to-earth woman know about a missingmovie star? Surprisingly, quite a lot. And Jake was going touncover it all...if Dixie didn't end up shooting him first.
