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

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

《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海，由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听：玫在1939年的上海，爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施，为让爱人去美国，玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中，小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助，，玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”，用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险，同时，以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式，去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料，令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。

Dan Killoe--over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man.He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknownterritory to a new land. Then he gave shelter to a stranger beinghunted by Felipe Soto, scar-faced leader of the renegadeComancheros. This time Killoe was borrowing more trouble than hewanted to handle.

When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames…. Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s fading fast. It’s seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her. But how? He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates. And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left… Enter BFF Stevie Rae. She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own. The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences. Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good. The truth is, Stevie Rae’s hiding a secret that

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L'Amour spins the story of acourageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down akiller. Tell Sackett and his bride Ange came to Arizona to build ahome and start a family. But on Black Mesa something goes terriblywrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally managesto drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate,cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalkedlike a wounded animal. Hiding from his attackers, his rage andfrustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, whythey are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife.Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, itwill be their turn to run.

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amourtells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are thelast hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. WhenYance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race northfrom Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rifewith rumors--and learn that someone very powerful was behindDiana's disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brothermust sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates,cutthroats, and ruthless "businessmen," he will apply the skills helearned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world--a world where onefalse move means instant death.

When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn'texpect to wind up in jail. But that's what happens when she triesto stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. Tucker Coulter, ahandsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense, and both of themare arrested. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have onlystarted...

It seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranchwas an attractive gray-haired lady who had once been an actress.The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. Theyneeded repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. Thefirst sign that things were not as they should be was when aPinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman. Then heaccidentally found a will belonging to the previous owner of theranch. After that, a young lady showed up in town making claimsthat the place belonged to her. Worried that his hideout wasturning into a battleground, he didn't know what would be moredangerous, staying or leaving. For a man interested only in passin'through, he suddenly found himself entangled in a deadlystruggle....

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Ride the Dark Trail L'Amour tells thestory of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways tohelp a widow keep her land from falling into the wronghands.... Logan Sackett was wild and rootless, riding west in search ofeasy living. Then he met Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who waseven wilder than he was. Tall and lean, Em was determined to defendherself against the locals who were trying to steal her land. Logan didn't want to get involved, until he found out that Em hadbeen born a Sackett. Em was bucking overwhelming odds, but Loganwouldn't let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knewthat part of being a Sackett was backing up your family when theyneeded you.

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.

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.

CINEMA CLASSICS brings back into print classic books that were the inspiration for some of the most beloved films of all time.Too often it is forgotten,or not even known,that many of the world's favorite movies were first bestselling books,capturing the imagination of reader,as they would later do for moviegoers.And often the book is richer,deeper,and even more dramatic and compeliing than the film,making the reading experience a pleasure all its own. THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER K WAI is such a classic,as both film and novel.First published in 1954,and released as a movie in 1957,starring Alec Guinness and William Holden,and winning seven Academy Awards including one for Best Picture,this is a spellbinding,epic World War II novel about the futility and insanity of war,viewed through the psychological confrontations between a willful British colonel prisoner-of-war and the equally willful Japanese colonel who is head of the camp.With pride,loyalty,tradition,heroism all brought into question,this is a sto

In his newest adventure, Indiana Jones travels to Indiaaccompanied by a female torch singer named Willie Scott and aneleven-year-old boy named Short Round, his self-appointedside-kick.

The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full-circle-they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together. Both Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days-but despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective's 'little grey cells'. However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-times murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder before the curtain falls-and with this deadly opponent there won't be an encore...

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.

While casing the safe in a billionaire's mansion, Luther Whitney witnesses the brutal murder of a woman. To further complicate matters, the woman is the mistress of the President of the United States. Immediately, the cover-up is set in motion by the president's most trusted aides...and Luther is running for his life.

Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail,the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one ofAmerica's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the secondgeneration of this great American family pursues a destiny in thewilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restlessquest... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, andwhen a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossiblequest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indianscall the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party andits leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people whentheir aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, thearrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett's quest will bring him danger froman implacable enemy ... and show him a life -- and a woman -- worthdying for.

Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On therain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalongdiscovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returningwith medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shotthrough the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out,Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learnsthat more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keepingone scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the monthlystagecoach shipments of gold. Hopalong is determined to stop thoseresponsible. But even the best gunfighter needs men he can trust towatch his back, men willing to risk their lives to do what's right.With their help, Hopalong fights to save the Rocking R, only tofind himself the target of a ruthless gunman in a life-and-deathstruggle for frontier justice.

He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big,broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the waysof staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on aremote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was thewarrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against thewhite men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apachewarrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.