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Scriptorium Maze

Scriptorium Maze

General Fiction

(japan) Goto Jun

100K0

Tomii, a university professor and mystery writer, encountered a mysterious oil painting in a Zurich gallery. It was the work of Hoshino Yasuo, a Japanese painter active in France. The gallery owner was entrusted by Hoshino and handed over letters, photos and a notebook to Tomii. Germany after the war. In a snowstorm, I came to a villa where reasoning enthusiasts from all over the world were holding a reasoning competition. In the process of challenging to solve "The Mystery of the English Shoe", the owner of the villa, Eichenbach, was murdered in the secret room of the attic, and the key to the mystery lies in the question chapter... The Hindenburg airship accident, the Battle of Waterloo, Wagner's "Parsifal", "Gregorian Chant", Sherlock Holmes and Nightingale... Tomii embarked on a journey to find the "Messenger" and faced the maze of majestic mysteries.

Lady in the Palace 2: Horseshoe Disease in the Spring Breeze

Anbuyaki

170K03

Scholars from all over the country rushed to the capital to take part in the imperial examination. But less than two days after the exam started, a candidate was brutally murdered in his dormitory. The examination rooms are separated by brick walls and monitored at the same time, which is equivalent to a "double secret room". How did the murderer sneak into the cell? How did the murder weapon disappear out of thin air? "Female Palace Detective" Fang Xinmei, Xuanzhen, Mu Hong and others were ordered to investigate, but unexpectedly discovered a series of cases of severed hands, and were almost assassinated by hidden arrows. At the same time, a poem about the abuses of the imperial examination suddenly appeared on the golden statue of Maitreya Buddha in the palace; an imperial examination scholar drank half a cup of leftover wine handed to him at a banquet hosted by the new champion, and then died of poison. Hidden arrows with no trace, "oracles" appearing for no reason, poisonings in full view... A series of mysteries surrounding the imperial examinations are slowly unfolding. Fang Xinmei may finally be able to find out the truth of the case, while the power struggle and emotional entanglements in the court continue.

Broken Mirror

Broken Mirror

General Fiction

Hu Yanyun

217K0

On a summer night, at a "horror talk", Xiao Qing, a singer who sang in a bar, told the story of a "mirror murder": a wife and her best friend conspired to kill her husband. Later, the husband's ghost appeared through the mirror again and again, and finally took revenge... Fan Yifan and Yang Wei who were present thought that Xiao Qing was insinuating them. After a quarrel, Xiao Qing left. Yang Wei really couldn't tell the story, so she suggested an alternative. She called the house where she lived alone in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, the call was answered in the room that was supposed to be empty... Yang Wei hurried home to check, and everyone followed, but when they rushed into the room, Yang Wei had been killed. The crime scene was exactly the same as the story told by Xiao Qing: a sharp knife penetrated the heart, blood flowed, and there were broken lenses left on the floor...

Angel Trumpet

Angel Trumpet

General Fiction

H

228K0

A new killer is on the move - and his methods are chilling. He lurked in dark, dank basements and underground passages in New York City, using a tattoo gun filled with deadly poison to leave mysterious patterns on his victims' skin. The victims showed various painful and miserable death conditions, and the scene was very horrific. The suspect created his own set of "Human Skin Laws" inspired by the "Bone Collector", a serial killer who terrorized New York City more than ten years ago. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, who had solved the "Bone Collector" case, were quickly involved in the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD detectives must race against time to uncover the truth: Who is the killer's next target? What message does the victim's mysterious tattoo send? What is the meaning of the murderer's own tattoo - a ferocious centipede with a woman's face and fangs? What is his ultimate mission? As the investigation deepens, Rhyme increasingly feels that nothing is more crazy than the haunting past...

Domino Girl

Domino Girl

General Fiction

Zheng Qiruo

112K01

In an era where androids are commonplace, Domino Tower provides entertainment to the world. It is like a door that erases memory. If someone comes here, they will lose themselves - after all, bionic people do not have a "self" in the first place, and people who come here to enjoy themselves will also forget their identity. In this "paradise", incredible attacks occurred one after another. The android code-named Zero started out as a detective. During the investigation and evidence collection, she couldn't help but start to think, in the eyes of humans, does she have a "heart"? The building will collapse, the paradise will disappear, and where will the girl go...

Sniper Room

Sniper Room

General Fiction

(us) Jeffrey Deaver

257K0

A police officer patrolling the street saw a suspicious figure holding what appeared to be a gun in his hand and was about to press the trigger. In this case, do the police have the right to shoot the suspect? What if the suspect is an activist promoting anti-American sentiment, and the police officer is a high-ranking official in a national intelligence agency? In this case, does the state have the right to shoot activists? Nancy Laurel thinks the answer is no, so she comes to armchair detective Lincoln Rhyme with a case. This time Rhyme and the NYPD's opponents aren't serial killers or terrorists. But the vast American body politic itself.

Backlit Bullet

Backlit Bullet

General Fiction

Dark Blue

148K02

In 2001, after the "June 11th Drug Case" in Nan'an City was solved, Liu Sanqing, a policeman from the Anti-Drug Brigade, was responsible for returning the physical evidence and confiscated drugs to the Public Security Bureau. But the police car accidentally crashed into a river on the road, Liu Sanqing disappeared, and the drugs in the car also disappeared. In 2003, Gu Jianguo, captain of the investigation brigade, exchanged fire with drug dealers in the "12.8 Shooting Case" and was shot and died. The bullet came from Liu Sanqing's gun before he disappeared. Therefore, the police identified Liu Sanqing as the fugitive drug dealer "Chang Shun" and launched a hunt. In 2016, Furukawa, who had already become a police officer and vowed to avenge his father, fell into many dangers while tracking a drug cartel. How do drug dealers escape capture time and time again? What are the police afraid of who never shoot? What is the whereabouts of the missing Liu Sanqing? In Nan'an City, where the undercurrent is surging, who is controlling the sky with one hand?

Ichikawa's Mystery Novel (all 4 Volumes)

I

522K0

There are 4 volumes in the series "Blue Roses Don't Sleep", "Jellyfish Don't Freeze", "The Glass Birds Don't Return" and "The Boneyard Can't Speak" by Yuuto Ichikawa, a rising star in Japanese mystery literature! The secret room filled with blue roses becomes a stage for performing criminal miracles; a new type of jellyfish boat crashes into the snowy mountain, and the invisible killer quietly appears; the rare and beautiful beauty in the world has been imprisoned in the secret room; a seamless and perfect crime? NO! The red-haired devil must know your sins!

Collection of Hu Yanyun Mystery Novels (4 Volumes in Total)

Hu Yanyun

1.0M02

A collection of novels by Hu Yanyun, the master of Chinese reasoning, including "Sweeping Mouse Ridge", "Empty City Strategy", "Transformation" and "Broken Mirror". "The best mystery is to give a false answer from the beginning." The elite team of the police gathers together to challenge "multiple impossible crimes", the world situation VS justice, the collision of personal reasoning and traditional culture, bringing you a thrilling reading journey!

Dark Blue Police Stories (4 Volumes in Total)

Dark Blue

546K05

The hot-blooded and shocking new police stories "Bullet Backlit" and "The Story of Deep Blue (3 volumes in total)". The creation of frontline police officers is based on real experiences, explores the dark corners of human nature, and pays tribute to all unsung heroes! The pursuit of the murderer in the dark night with the same goal through different roads, the elegy of the hero in the peaceful era, behind the absurd reality is the lone brave man who goes against the light!

Hou Dali's Criminal Investigation Notes 7: Detection of Combined Cases

Small Bridge Old Tree

200K0

"Hou Dali's Criminal Investigation Notes" is a textbook-style crime-solving novel, a new criminal investigation suspense masterpiece created by Xiaoqiao Laoshu! The corpses floating on the river led to a series of murders that had been silent for many years. Faced with a murder case that had not been solved for many years, Hou Dali was ordered to turn on the "detective" mode once again. He returned to the scene and finally found a new direction in the overlooked details. With the help of social relationships and behavioral trajectories, he brought three broken families and three dusty past events back into people's sight, and finally revealed the truth about the long-term domestic violence suffered by three women. Who took the life of the perpetrator, and how will Hou Dali finally break through the suspect's defenses and find out the real culprit? Open this book to show you textbook-like crime-solving techniques and criminal investigation wisdom!

Hou Dali Criminal Investigation Notes 9: Finale

Small Bridge Old Tree

235K8.811

It seems that we are getting closer and closer to solving the case, but unexpectedly, the murder happens again. The criminal gang laid many ambushes in an attempt to kill Hou Dafa. Hou Dali disregarded his own safety and captured key figures when his life was hanging by a thread! Why was Yang Fan killed? By whose hand did Bai Yumei die? The truth is exposed one after another like dominoes! More than twenty years of grievances have come to an end, the unsolved cases have come to light, the evildoers have reaped the consequences, and the haze in Shannan has finally dissipated. Open this book to show you textbook-like crime-solving techniques and criminal investigation wisdom!

Spy's Epitaph

Spy's Epitaph

General Fiction

(uk) Eric Ambler

146K0

Wadasi was on vacation when he was arrested by the police. He never thought that he would be accused of "espionage", and the evidence was actually ten confidential negatives taken out of his camera. Only then did he realize that his camera had been tampered with. The real spy is hiding in the hotel where he is staying. Twelve suspects with their own agendas, a two-day emergency tracking! As the truth is revealed, there is also the secret behind each person: in order to survive and for money, some people are humble and obedient, and some are despicable... When the identity of the real spy surfaced, the situation became even more out of control. In this life-and-death spy crisis, can he escape unscathed, and can he hold on to the bottom line?

Report Anonymously

Report Anonymously

General Fiction

Li Jiaqi

196K0

The vice president of the marketing department, who was at the peak of his momentum, was suddenly reported anonymously. The whistleblower is in trouble, the person being reported insists that he is innocent, the boss stays out of the matter, the subordinates conspire to protect themselves, and the opponents benefit. More and more people are getting involved, and more and more secrets are coming to light. The profound impact and wide scope of this report are far beyond everyone's imagination... Open this book and walk into the center of the storm after the anonymous report! During the five years of writing "Anonymous Reporting", the author Li Jiaqi conducted a large number of surveys and interviews, and obtained valuable first-hand materials and real cases from relevant institutions such as internal control and supervision departments of large group companies, university criminal law research centers, industry associations, well-known law firms, etc. This book is adapted from a real anti-fraud case, touching on the sensitive areas of hundreds of millions of professionals. A report that risks everything will set off an earth-shaking business storm!

People Return from Ruins

That Much

180K03

My father passed away and my lover disappeared. In the past few years, I have been in a very depressed state and rarely participate in adventures in strange events. Until this time, in order to report on the "ruins", I went to the thousand-year-old ancient city at the bottom of Hanfeng Lake. There, I encountered supernatural events: underwater torrential sounds that made me tremble, thousands of overlapping worlds, and a man in black took away a crystal-clear object from the ruins... When I returned to the water, my memory became weird - there was an extra memory in my head. After that, he traveled to many places, including Lhasa-Chongqing-Kunshan-Marseille-Shanghai. A mysterious person has been sending emails providing detailed clues pointing to an organization and a quantum scientist. The prophecy 1,000 years ago pointed out: All this is related to the balance of the world...

Gene's Revenge

Gene's Revenge

General Fiction

Jing Xufeng

211K0

A sudden earthquake caused Shao Zian and several classmates to stray into a parallel space caused by a near-death experience. After waking up, I thought everything was back on track, but unexpectedly, that near-death experience began to come true in Shao Zian's life again and again. What is reality and what is illusion? Was it that near-death experience, or was it his real life? When Shao Zian was on the verge of collapse, he finally embarked on a narrow escape path to find the truth. As everyone knows, when he first entered the parallel space, a story about the revenge of genes was slowly unfolding.

Detective Collection of Ye Huang and His Wife

Written By Nagakawa And Compiled By Wasby

87K0

Nagakawa's "The Detective Collection of Ye Huang and Couple" is a rare "husband and wife" detective series during the Republic of China. At that time, it broke away from the "detective + assistant" model of Sherlock Holmes and adopted a relatively novel "double detective model": the police husband Ye Zhixiong is brave, capable, and carries a gun, and is a capable officer in the police; his wife Huang Xuewei gradually grew up as a private detective because of her love of reading detective novels. This book contains nine novels in the "Ye Huang Couple Detective" series that are currently available: "A Kitchen Knife", "The Illegitimate Son Is Missing", "Fox Fire", "Death in a Bowl of Porridge", "Red Shoes", "The Man Following", "Strange Letter", "Emerald Vase" and "The Great Detective's Stolen Car". It is a complete collection of this series more than 70 years after its birth.

Zhu Gongan

Zhu Gongan

General Fiction

Guangsi

147K0

The whole book "Zhu Gong's Case" takes the main characters Zhu Gong, the county magistrate of a certain dynasty, and his four generals. It tells the legendary story of Zhu Gong in the county, Beijing, Bashu and other places, relying on his extraordinary insight and reasoning ability to solve cases for officials, eliminate harm for the people, and eliminate evil spirits. There are a total of eight stories in the book, which take time as the axis and span the county, capital, Mianyang and other places. The case is complicated and confusing, and the plot is gripping. The author uses the foreshadowing of grass and snakes to unravel seemingly unsolvable cases in front of readers. In these stories, some people may have been sentenced to death, but Zhu Gong successfully overturned the verdict. Or seemingly unsolvable murders are revealed one after another through minimal clues. Or due to a haunting case, the ghost is intercepted in the tangible form, and it is finally discovered that the evil spirit is not in the ghost but in the person. Or go with many heroes in the world to save Shaolin from fire and water. Or be involved in the murder of the prince, and go deep into the power to experience the "natural dangers of the world."

Pure White as Snow

Pure White as Snow

General Fiction

Liu Jianmian

123K0

A woman fell to her death on the snow, her body broken into pieces, but there was no height around her, only endless snow. This scene often appeared in Wu Chaoming's dreams, and he had been troubled by it for many years. Just when Wu Chaoming was worried about growing troubles and nightmares, by chance, he met Fang Yuning, a girl who loves reasoning, and was invited by her father Fang Zhengshu to Wangxue Village in the snow-capped mountains. He saw his beloved girl here again, but this reunion was the beginning of a series of horrific experiences... The four dead people took turns to become the murderers? Who is the murderer? I accidentally broke into a reasoning game played by real people, and finally discovered that the human heart cannot be reasoned with logic.

Chinese Detective in San Francisco

Written By Nai Fan And Compiled By Wasby

108K0

"Chinese Detective in San Francisco", Naifan's masterpiece of detective novels, is set in San Francisco, USA, and tells the various situations of overseas Chinese detective Zhao Xilang solving crimes. It is a rare overseas Chinese detective story in the detective novels of the Republic of China. The book contains a total of four cases: "An Endless Play", "The Fire in the Building", "Forever Beauty" and "Death of an Adventurer". Sun Liaohong, a famous detective novelist in the Republic of China, highly praised this book and praised it as "a rare masterpiece among our country's detective novels". He also praised the author's "intelligence and writing skills, which are far beyond my own" and said frankly: "If someone asks who I admire in domestic detective novels, I admire Naifan first."

Nightmare

Nightmare

General Fiction

G

55K0

This is a collection of mystery short stories written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, the master of Japanese monster reasoning. It contains a total of 6 short stories including "Nightmare Fate" and "Nightmare Scene".

Madman's Deduction Method 2

Fang Yang

108K0

Police officer Chen Feng died in the line of duty during the investigation of a case. I found a notebook among his belongings, which recorded some things that he had never mentioned. It turns out that the mutilation case was not the first time Luo Qianchen assisted the police in solving a case. During the years he was imprisoned, he assisted the police many times and solved various major cases. The murderers of these cases all had a common characteristic. They all seemed to have varying degrees of mental illness...

Madman's Deduction

Madman's Deduction

General Fiction

Fang Yang

105K0

Police officer Chen Feng died in the line of duty during the investigation of a case. I found a notebook among his belongings, which recorded some things that he had never mentioned. It turns out that the mutilation case was not the first time Luo Qianchen assisted the police in solving a case. During the years he was imprisoned, he assisted the police many times and solved various major cases. The murderers of these cases all had a common characteristic. They all seemed to have varying degrees of mental illness...

Absolute Alibi Series (2 Volumes in Total)

H

187K01

A mysterious watch shop, for only 5,000 yen, the owner can help you overturn all alibi! A victim who came back from the dead, a murder in his sleep, three lines of footprints on the snow, a man's body tied up in a luxury car in Shenhu, a deadlocked corpse-burning case... 12 Cases, covering almost all types of alibi tricks! Open this book and follow the god of short stories to uncover the lies of alibi!

500 Eyewitnesses: Absolute Alibi 2

H

84K08

A mysterious watch shop, for only 5,000 yen, the owner can help you overturn all alibi! A man was tied up in a luxury car that sank to the bottom of the lake and refused to die; 500 true testimonies brought the corpse-burning case to a deadlock; three suspects in a murder case actually had four alibi; murder cases were discovered in two places at the same time, and the investigation results pointed to the same suspect; the sculpture in the secret room was destroyed, and there is a hidden motive behind the crime... Five seemingly impossible crimes, nine absolute alibis that are difficult to crack. This time, can the young shopkeeper see through the layers of truth and see through the lies of the alibi?

Day of Fame

Day of Fame

General Fiction

(uk) Matt Osman

249K0

"I have seen the future, brother, and it was murder." A pair of twin brothers with very different personalities who have not been in contact for a long time. The elder brother Brandon is the lead singer of a outdated rock band, and the younger brother Adam is a reclusive model maker. One day, Adam received a call and learned the news that Brandon had been shot. In order to find out the truth, Adam pretended to be Brandon and dived into a dark world full of lies. The mysterious luxury hotel, the stranger who suddenly visits, the former band mates, everything is hidden. Things became more and more confusing, and Adam vaguely felt that he was in danger of being controlled by someone...

Moment

Moment

General Fiction

Guo Peiwen

236K0

Migration between urban and rural areas, centuries passed, what do sinners see in their eyes? In the autumn of 2014, a popular music festival was being held at the beach park at the end of Juzizhou. As night fell, a body appeared unbelievably in the tight security area. The Criminal Investigation Brigade of Yuelu Public Security Bureau quickly sorted out the clues and arrested the suspect early the next morning. Who is he? How? Why? The evidence is in front of us, but the suspect's silence turns the case into a malfunctioning clock. The gears cannot engage and can only keep turning back the time. It dissects a person's violence and tenderness, and reveals the multiple faces of everything and the melancholy between good and evil.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 2)

Little Flying Goose

188K02

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 1)

Little Flying Goose

188K07

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 12)

Little Flying Goose

182K04

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 11)

Little Flying Goose

183K01

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 9)

Little Flying Goose

178K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 10)

Little Flying Goose

178K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 7)

Little Flying Goose

182K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 8)

Little Flying Goose

181K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 5)

Little Flying Goose

184K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 6)

Little Flying Goose

181K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 4)

Little Flying Goose

184K02

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

The Adventures of Waste Wood (volume 3)

Little Flying Goose

184K0

My favorite thing is to play hide and seek with them. After they hide, I go home to eat.

Crime Unit No. 1

Crime Unit No. 1

General Fiction

Mao Deyuan

3.8M8.54,564

Based on real declassified criminal investigation files, it tells the story of a bizarre and bizarre serial murder case. During the rainy season, an unknown female corpse floated from the river, and the suspect was struck by lightning and killed. The second and third suspects also died unexpectedly... What kind of secrets are hidden behind the serial murders? The investigation is ongoing, the thrilling cases are intertwined, and the modus operandi is incredible. There is only one truth! "Crime Unit No. 1" Reproduces the wonderful documentary of "Crime Unit 6" and digs out the tragic truth of the bizarre murder case.

Detective Xiao Jiangnan 3

Tang Qianyi

626K0

Prosecutor Xiao Jiangnan lost his official position because he was framed by evil forces. After leaving the prosecutor's office, he returned to university to study criminology and study the evil of human nature. After receiving his doctorate, he joined the Xingang Criminal Police Detachment with the help of his former classmate Liu Sanxiao and was appointed as an expert consultant to the police station. Xiao Jiangnan used his convenience in the criminal police team to repeatedly solve strange cases, and step by step he got closer to the mastermind who framed him. He used his wisdom and courage to launch a thrilling contest against the evil forces that controlled Starport. This book is the third volume in the series of novels "Detective Xiao Jiangnan".

Terrorist's Umbrella

Terrorist's Umbrella

General Fiction

(japan) Fujiwara Iori

140K01

22 years ago, his girlfriend left without saying goodbye, and his friend went overseas. He was involved in a murder case and has been drifting to this day. At this moment, he witnessed an explosion. Strangely, the names of his friends and girlfriend were listed among the dead! He became the most wanted criminal and once again lost his home. At the same time, all kinds of strangers broke into his world one after another: the former Eguchi-gumi boss who was missing two fingers, his girlfriend's daughter, an old professor living on the street... Everyone seemed to be secretly related to the bombing. While avoiding the pursuit of the police, he secretly investigated, but slowly discovered that what was pressing on him step by step was the dark past 22 years ago...

Forensic Doctor Qin Ming: Peeper

Forensic Doctor Qin Ming

239K9.612

Forensic Qin Ming Series·Wanxiang Volume·Season 6. Forensic doctor Qin Ming's underrated work predicts the tragedy of Room N in advance! "Prying into a person's secrets can control her life." Before I received that mysterious phone call, I never believed in the lethality of this sentence. After all, I am just a full-time wife. I always stay at home and the person I see the most is my husband. But the secret that had been buried deep in my heart for a long time and was too shy to tell the world was revealed to a stranger without any warning. When he spoke word by word on the phone, I felt like my skin was being cut open... In order to protect my secret, I decided to see him. When I woke up, I was out of sight. What's even scarier is that I'm not the only one in this place. In countless sleepless nights, bursts of cries and screams came from the next door. They were manipulated like puppets, and it was my turn next... When I was discovered again, I had become a broken and unknown female corpse. About my secrets, about the life that was taken away from me, about the murderer of the serial disappearances... The truth about all these is hidden in the wedding ring in my mouth. Find it, quickly... Before the next girl's life is ruined.

Collection of Japanese Brain-burning Novels (10 Volumes in Total)

(japan) Uraga Kazuhiro Et Al.

1.2M0

The set includes: "The Tragedy of Delta", "The Mystery of the House of Murderers", "The Mystery of the Box of Evil Eyes", "The Mystery of the Corpse Mansion", "Impossible", "The Witch of Laplace (Hardcover)", "The Curse of the Witch", "The Resurrection of the Doll", "The Resurrection of the Clown" and "The Son of a Detective".

The Truth Behind Forensic Medicine (16 Volumes in Total)

Forensic Doctor Qin Mingtian Craftsman

6.7M0

The set includes: "Burning Hummingbird", "Forensic Chin: The Condemned One", "Forensic Chin: The Forgotten One", "Forensic Chin: Doll", "Corpse Whisperer", "Forensic Chin: Silent Testimony", "Forensic Chin: The Eleventh Finger" "Medical Qin Ming: Scavenger", "Forensic Qin Ming: Survivor", "Night Watch", "Night Watch 2: Dark Potential", "Night Watch 3: Blind Spot of Life and Death", "Night Watch 4: Tianyan", "Testimony of the Dead", "Book of the Dead", "Forensic Doctor Xu Fu".

Tiangui: Dad is Obsessed with the Mystery

Song Of Flowers Passed By The Wind

175K0

What is written in the strange words in ancient books? What message is depicted in the mysterious portrait on the mysterious scroll? Is it suspense? Is it a mystery? It's fantasy after all! Fantasy begets fantasy, fantasy begets wonder, wonder lasts longer than fantasy, and fantasy never fades. This is called fantasy. In the fantasy, there are thousands of years of secrets, strange things of the present, the emergence of bestiality that cannot be covered by nature, the revelation of human nature that cannot be hidden in the bones, and the ghosts and ghosts that cannot be hidden in the painting. The little-known unofficial history in the corners of history, the black holes in the deep mountains and old forests that no one cares about, and the unopened veils from all over the world are all revealed in the fantasy journey. With the transfer of time and the transformation of space, there is always a thread that runs through the beginning and end, detonating the fantasy, and every fragment is a rarity of fantasy, scattered in every corner. One day, someone will put these pieces back together again and find the lost fantasy.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (classic Translation)

(u. S.) James M. Cain

77K0

The first super best-seller in the history of American publishing, the pinnacle of hard-boiled crime novels, the undisputed originator of "noir literature/movies", one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, a time-tested classic text that has been adapted for the screen five times. Ruth teamed up with her husband Judd to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope in an attempt to defraud her of the personal accident insurance money she had bought for him without telling him. Sex and murder, continuous media hype, and a large photo of Ruth sitting in the electric chair published in the New York Daily News made the case a national sensation. The plot setting at the beginning of Kane's novel is almost exactly the same as the real case, only the characters and events are more typical and dramatized: this time the lover is called Frank, a young and handsome gangster who likes to wander around, and the novel is narrated in the first person from his perspective; The cold beauty is not blonde but black-haired, her name is Cora; Cora's husband Nick is a "greasy, short, dark and curly Greek" who likes to sing a few times when he has nothing to do. He runs a roadside shop that combines a gas station, a car repair shop and a small restaurant. By staging a fake car accident, Frank and Cora murder Nick. Unlike the real case, Cora did not sit in the electric chair this time. After a tortuous and thrilling battle with the insurance company, they also received a huge amount of insurance money. But the story is not over, the real climax has just begun: from then on, contrary to the commonly used sentence patterns in fairy tales, they lived an unhappy life. That kind of misfortune is so deep and desperate that you may even feel that they are worse off than Ruth who sat on the electric chair.

Network Trap

Network Trap

General Fiction

(france) Sylvain Forge

106K0

The winning work of the French Police Department Award. The smart small appliances, probes, coffee machines, or pacemakers around you may pose hidden dangers to human safety and kill people invisibly. "A fascinating novel with a forward-looking storyline that perfectly fits the new environment and trends of police work." - French Police Chief Christian Sant. A pair of twin brothers, one in a moving car and the other at home, died suddenly at different places at the same time. Is this a coincidence or deliberate murder? The Nantes Police Department took over the case and found that both twin brothers had pacemakers. Could this be a medical device accident? As the investigation deepened, the police discovered that the case was more complicated than expected. At the same time, the computer network within the police station was also attacked by a virus and paralyzed. The familiar copiers, probes, and coffee machines all around us have all turned into dangerous equipment, putting the police under attack from both sides. What's the conspiracy behind this? Artificial intelligence systems originally intended to protect national security have now become a huge threat that cannot be contained. An attack on the entire city is quietly underway...

N

N

General Fiction

I

274K0

I woke up from a mental hospital with no memory. The only sounds in my ears were the roar of a strange woman and the sound of banging on the wall. Until a doctor told me: When I was 16 years old, my mother, who was dependent on me, was strangled to death by my side, but I was sleepwalking when the incident occurred. When I was 18 years old, my fiancée died naked in front of me, and after the incident, I was actually tracing the portrait of the corpse... Is what the doctor said true? Am I the real culprit in these two murder cases? The key to retrieving memories lies in the incomprehensible papers, strange suicide notes, and mysterious picture scrolls. After my memory awakens, is what awaits me a redemption or an even more unfathomable trap?

Crime Catcher: Villain Hospital

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"No matter where you want to escape, your childhood will always be with you." A mental hospital that specializes in child felons cultivates a group of children who will grow up to become murderers. They either showed obvious homicidal tendencies or attempted murder. They are haunted by the shadow of their childhood, and killing becomes their nature. Brutal murders were staged one after another, and the victims were all pairs of men and women. How could a seemingly pure soul commit such evil deeds in a calm and ruthless manner? Marcus, a criminal tracker who lost his memory, risked his life to investigate the truth, but unexpectedly discovered that a group of people were protecting the murderer in the dark, but the murderer himself did not know it...

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