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The Sherlock Holmes created by the British writer Sir Conan Doyle (1859-1930) has already transcended his era, nationality and even his author, becoming an image of an invincible, invincible, eternal and immortal detective, and has even become a common noun. This book is based on more than a dozen "best" works selected by Sir Conan Doyle during his lifetime. It also selects several excellent detective works with different characteristics, a total of 21 pieces, compiled into "Selected Sherlock Holmes". With one volume in hand, you can see the essence of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, which is worth collecting and appreciating.

After the outbreak of World War I, Maugham was recruited by the British secret intelligence service because of his proficiency in multiple languages, familiarity with various European countries, and being a well-known writer. He became a genuine "British spy" and went to Europe to perform many important missions. This book was written based on his personal experience and was hailed by The Times as "the first spy novel written by someone who experienced it personally". It is also the only spy novel Maugham wrote in his life. Although he did it by chance, he greatly broadened the writing boundaries of this type of novel, which was originally a popular entertainment form, and made more ambitious writers pay attention to the expressive potential of spy novels, thus occupying a milestone-like position in the history of the development of spy novels. In "The British Agent", Maugham did not just dazzle readers with the so-called thrills. What interested him most was still human nature in extreme situations and critical moments. As the translator of this book, Mr. Gao Jian, said, this book can be regarded as a masterpiece that is highly interesting, realistic and credible: "Some scenes in Maugham's book may not be so dramatic, but it is a perfect book and a tenable novel. "It is a work that is reasonable, credible, readable and interesting. It is based on facts and uses imagination, and it does not violate the artistic and historical truth. In addition, it is full of British style, rich in literary meaning, and has great appreciation value."

The story begins in London during World War II, where two teenagers, Martin and Dovedore, became close friends of life and death. Dovidor is a violinist who has been exiled from Warsaw and lives in Martin's house. Together they wandered around the bombed-out London, exploring, discovering tragedy and comedy, sex and sin. That experience constituted the most unforgettable good time in their lives. However, on the night of the premiere of Dovedor's violin recital, he mysteriously disappeared. This incident became a knot in Martin's mind for decades. Through the story of Martin's search for Dovedore decades later, the novel cleverly interweaves the past and the present, revealing the life paths of the two protagonists, as well as the changes in the times and the desolation of the world reflected by their experiences. It is a song of humanity that sings three sighs at a time.

Phantom City, a city of detectives. The detectives from each family show off their magical powers, eliminate harm for the people, and also compete secretly. There is only one case from ten years ago that no one has cracked yet, and the man behind it still scares detectives. They are the "mysterious organization". The Super Detective Agency must also do its part! Although the detectives all have useless superpowers... Li Qinghu, Zuo Rou, Ye Feidao, and Youyou, four superpower detectives solve the mystery at hand while tracking down the mysterious organization. However, they never expected that the mysterious organization would also target the detectives.

The famous TV quiz show "Go Forward" has entered its most intense stage. Ye Shuxian, the wife of famous entrepreneur Rong Yingtai, unexpectedly lost. However, what caused a sensation among the people was that Ye Shuxian, who was supposed to fall off the stage and be picked up by the staff, actually "disappeared" in full view of the world, and has been missing ever since. The scheming Rong Yingtai urgently discussed countermeasures with his family, and specially invited his friend from the Provincial Public Security Department - Interpol An Liwei from the Investigation Division 1 to assist in investigating the mystery of his wife's mysterious disappearance. The Rong family all appeared, and the Rong Mansion was gradually shrouded in the shadow of crime. Undead that appear mysteriously and disappear out of thin air, corpses that fall from high altitudes, impossible murders in multiple secret rooms...

Phantom City is a city of detectives: tough guy detectives, housewife detectives, gourmet detectives... "Detective agencies" with different styles all exist in this city. The Super Power Detective Agency is one of them. As the name suggests, all the detectives in this agency have "superpowers", but... Everyone's superpowers are a bit... Well, useless. But since he holds the title of "detective", he has to fight wits and courage with the evil criminal forces! The detectives of the Super Power Detective Agency swear to the lamp that they must use their super logical reasoning and super useless super powers to solve the mystery and keep everyone safe! At this time, in a corner unknown to these detectives, there is an evil mysterious organization quietly approaching...

There is an island, a secret island unknown to outsiders. There is a group of strange people on the island, as well as a talking scarecrow who knows the future. A prophecy has been circulating on the island for hundreds of years: the island lacks something, and outsiders will bring it. The "outsiders" finally arrived, and the islanders were full of expectations, but what they were waiting for was violence and killing... And the god-like scarecrow also fell bizarrely. Who can come to save this island? Does it really need redemption?

Just weeks after marrying Rosaleen, a beautiful young widow, Gordon-Claude died in an air raid in London. His huge family property naturally fell into the hands of his young wife. On the other hand, although the Claude family members all have decent jobs on the surface, they actually depend on Gordon for their lives. His sudden death and the fact that the inheritance was taken by Rosalind suddenly made the conflict acute. At this time, a mysterious man who called himself Enoch Arden came to the village. He blackmailed Rosaleen and her brother David on the grounds that Rosaleen's ex-husband Underhay was actually still alive. Unexpectedly, he was murdered in the hotel room. The witness, Major Porter, actually identified the deceased in court as Andhay himself, who had been dead for many years...

During the general election in a certain city in the United States, the son of a senator was brutally murdered. The arrow points to vendetta and election conspiracy. Everyone from all sides wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make profits. The police and the suspect's relatives and friends received strange anonymous letters, the contents of which were all negative insinuations about the suspect. Seeing that the suspect had become estranged from his family and even admitted the crime himself, his good friend and subordinate, who had always had confidence in him, still took risks in an attempt to turn the tide.

The Rainbow Building, as its name suggests, is a building whose walls are painted in seven colors and looks like a rainbow. This stylish building is the landmark building of the Shanghai Garden Hotel. Shen Bingyue, who worked in a cafe, encountered a murder case when she came here for the first time, and the scene was strange. Also present at the scene were novel editor Zhao Zhiqi and beauty writer Ding Rui. The careless editor Zhao suddenly pointed out the murderer without any evidence. The editor's reasoning was ignored, but Shen Bingyue noticed several doubts. The road of "chasing the murderer" is actually to dig out other people's secrets. Shen Bingyue, who was involved in it, discovered that some shameful things are much better than the hypocrisy in the city today. It felt like seeing a rainbow in the dark night.

This book is the prequel story of "Assassin's Creed: Origins". It tells the story that when Ptolemy XII was in power, Raya, an ambitious junior cadre of the Order of the Ancients, accidentally discovered the Guardians from ancient documents and believed that they would become an obstacle to the development of the Order. He privately hired killers to eradicate their bloodline and claimed credit for his rise to power. The last elder of the Guardians noticed something had changed and urgently summoned the Guard Officer of Siwa and the father of Bayek to investigate the matter. Bayek was puzzled by his father's sudden death, so he embarked on a journey to find his father and continued to grow in the process.

A beautiful woman came to ask Sam Spade to track the man who had eloped with her sister. However, the partner Sam sent died in a dark alley that night, and the person being followed also died a few hours later. Sam soon discovered that things were very different from the woman's story. Wrapped up in many lies, the core of the incident turned out to be a medieval royal tribute, the "Maltese Eagle." A group of criminals started a deceitful fight around it. They took turns engaging in secret robberies, serial deceptions, financial bribes and honey traps. How will Sam recognize their true identity? The book comes with a beautiful bookmark and a value-for-money full-color "Incomplete Manual of the Maltese Falcon" to provide you with a comprehensive analysis of Hammett and his Maltese Falcon!

A group of "S. H. I. E. L. D. Agents" during the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, some dignitaries collected corresponding immortal monsters for their own use. The thrilling secret battle for power was mixed with countless bizarre and bizarre cases. The imperial court had to set up the Jinwu Guards to eliminate evil spirits and solve cases to maintain the balance of government... During the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wei was in power, and a series of strange demon cases occurred in Chang'an, the capital...

"Want to see a picture of the murderer?" Miss Marple, entertained by her nephew Raymond, came to the West Indies in the Caribbean for vacation. Just when she was bored, the chatty Major Palgrave told her about a strange murder case. Just when the colonel was about to hand the snapshot of the murderer to Miss Marple, his expression suddenly changed, he hid the photo and changed the subject. Miss Marple's curiosity was aroused, and she was ready to ask what happened the next day. Unexpectedly, the next day she received the bad news that Major Palgrave had died of hypertension last night! That snapshot has also disappeared...

Bernie disappeared for a while. Oh no, it should be said that he had reformed. After some hard work, he finally managed to make the second-hand bookstore barely break even. He thought his life would be so comfortable, but he also encountered a problem that most people have trouble with - soaring prices. The new landlord issued a notice that the rent would be increased, and it would be more than ten times the original price. The repentant thief seemed to have only one option left. On the first night he returned to his old business, Bernie encountered a corpse...

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When reading Nishizawa, how can you miss Jiang Qianxiao! Content introduction: There is a reason for everything, such as putting a person to death. What happens next? There is something more cruel, more extreme, and heinous. Even if it is very troublesome, there are still many people who have to do it. Just two words, but I cannot say it clearly. New York has eight million people, eight million stories, eight million ways to die... And maybe eight million reasons to do that? ! But this book was not written by Bullock. The super-powerful imagination of the famous reasoning master Yasuhiko Nishizawa perfectly explains the high crime cost of "disintegration" and why the murderers have to pay it again and again.

Poems, books, wine, tea. Favors, old things. Cases, dead people. How could such an elegant thing be stained with blood? You only know how to sing while drinking, but you don't know that people who read poetry can also write poems to kill their hearts; people who drink tea may look at tea with hatred; people who read books are willing to die for books; people who drink wine can only use wine to fight. Five ancient-style detective stories, looking at the skills of Jing Fei, an alcoholic official's "detective", and uncovering the secrets behind elegant things. Years pass by in a blink of an eye, but it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil. The charm of the truth is like the truth spoken after drinking.

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"From the first reading of "Li Sao" to the complete reading of Qu Yuan's works, combined with the analysis of various records, in my opinion, Qu Yuan's identity is not only a scholar-bureaucrat, but also a witch who participated in the national sacrifices of the Chu State, and was a witch who wore men's clothing from childhood until her old age." In the first year of the Tianhan Dynasty, Yu Lingkui, the daughter of a wealthy family in Chang'an who first visited Yunmengze in Chu State, alarmed the Guan family who had been in charge of the national sacrifices of the Chu State with the above views. Due to family rules passed down from generation to generation, Yu Lingkui, the eldest daughter, will serve as the "witcher" who presides over family sacrifices and will not be allowed to marry throughout her life. During this visit, she had always had a tense relationship with Guan Lushen, the youngest daughter of the Guan family, and the sudden series of murders made Lushen suspect that this foreigner was the source of all nightmares. Who is behind the scenes? Is the murderer's motive related to the sacrificial activities, or is it related to the murder of the Guan clan four years ago? Putting the family's reputation on the line, Yu Lingkui is determined to find the real murderer...

Literary agent Anthea Landau wants to auction off a famous writer's letters, leaving the reclusive writer furious but unable to do anything about it. Moreover, the writer wrote a novel that influenced Bernie's life. What's more, this commission was proposed by a beautiful and mysterious girl. In this way, even though there was no material reward, Bernie took action again for his ideals. However, what greeted him was only corpses, but the letter disappeared...

Bernie didn't feel that his actions were moral, he just felt that it was unfair to go to jail even though he had not committed a crime. He went to appraise a rich man's book collection and left countless fingerprints. Bernie finds himself wanted by the police when his client dies at home that night. At the same time, Caroline's cat was kidnapped, and the kidnapper demanded a ransom of $250,000. So Bernie thought of the Mondrian he saw in his client's home...

A bookseller and a true New Yorker, Bernie rarely left Manhattan. But this time he arranged a romantic weekend trip for himself and his lover Lettice, but Lettice told him that she was getting married... Bernie had no plans to get married for the time being, so he brought his best friend Caroline to the Gatford Hotel, not to mention there was a rare book that Bernie had coveted for a long time on the bookshelf there. Uh... Do you still remember that Bernie is a thief? However, things are always so unsatisfactory. When Bernie enters the library, he finds a body lying on the ground...

"Blind Detective Carrados" is Ernest Brama's masterpiece. The protagonist in the book, Marcos Carrados, is the first disabled detective in the history of detective literature and is known as "the last detective of the Golden Age."

A few months after learning that Shizuko Ota was pregnant, Osamu Dazai and another lover Yamazaki Furei died in love with Tamagawa Josui. At that time, Haruko Ota had just been born. The previously published "Setting Sun" overlaps to a large extent with Jingzi's diary, and even a word has not been changed in many places. As the surviving daughter of Osamu Dazai, how does Osamu treat her father whom she has never met? As the daughter of Shizuko who provided the material for "Setting Sun", how does Hariko treat Dazai who "plagiarized" her mother's diary? Why did Dazai, who had attempted suicide several times, turn to someone else after learning that Shizuko was pregnant? Why did he sink himself after a few months? What did Dazai go through before committing suicide, and what was his inner psychological activity?

No longer agile? Are you getting timid? Luo Dengbao, who has changed his job in middle age, finally bids farewell to dark night adventures and becomes a second-hand bookstore owner. It's just that... A rare book that is said to be unique in the world - a collection of anti-Semitic poems written by Kipling and presented to famous figures, is causing collectors from all walks of life to compete for it. If you can... You have to pay the price just for your heartbeat. In the blink of an eye, he had inexplicably transformed from a kind and good citizen to a dangerous fugitive wanted by the police...

At the beginning of the story, four detectives appear together (the four famous detectives - this is a subversion in itself) - they are all fans of reasoning and believers of Sherlock Holmes - one of the most prominent features is that they are all incompetent people! In the eyes of these four gentlemen, they just lacked an opportunity. If a corpse appeared in front of them, any one of them would do better than Holmes. Opportunities are always for those who are prepared. One day, a body fell from the railway bridge next to the golf course, and the four Holmes rushed to the scene...

Brashear, who had been wrongfully imprisoned and had just regained his freedom, met Louise, a beautiful woman who escaped from her home late at night, and learned that she was a woman with a complicated past who was criticized by the locals and was trying to escape from a man she did not love. Her drunken boyfriend and a companion chased her. During the fight, the companion fell and injured his head, and the two had to leave. Immediately came the news that the injured man was dying, and the police launched a hunt for Brashear. His only hope of avoiding being imprisoned again is for the injured in the hospital bed to wake up. However, it seems that some people don't want this to happen... This book also includes three short stories from the Sam Spade series: "Too Many People Have Lived", "They Can Only Hang You Once" and "A Man Named Spade".

Bernie and his partner Caroline go to a house in the West End to burgle, only to find that someone has beaten them to it. Fortunately, the first thieves left behind some valuable things: emerald earrings, a Piaget watch... And a coin that was so valuable that Bernie, of course, took it away. The next morning, a murder was reported on the news. Just when Bernie wanted to get rid of the coins, the police came to the door. Next, another murder occurred, this time the murderer was closer to Bernie...

In a mysterious mansion located on the edge of Tai Lake on the outskirts of the city, a series of murders that go against common sense have frightened the entire family. Sealed basements, rooms with closely monitored entrances, suspended wooden houses... Tragic secret room murders occurred one after another, and members of the Lu family fell under the scythe of death one after another. The ghostly murder methods put the police investigation into a stalemate. The conditions at the murder scene actually suggested that the murderer was a baby? What does the shocking secret sealed at the bottom of Taihu Lake portend? Just when everyone was at their wits' end, An Zhen, known as the "genius cartoonist", appeared and faced this series of incredible mysteries head-on!

In Yanshan Village, which is world-famous for making puppets, all the residents disappeared silently overnight! There was no trace of violence or any reason. Hundreds of people disappeared from the world, leaving an unsolvable mystery for future generations. Since then, residents of neighboring villages have called Yanshan Village "the village cursed by puppets" and have been silent every time they mention it. Many years later, under the leadership of Internet celebrity ruin explorer Jiang Chao, Han Jin and his party came to Yanshan Village, which was regarded as a taboo place. Ancient tablets full of curses, puppets scattered everywhere, and a series of bizarre deaths... Can Han Jin, who is once again in crisis, still wait for Chen Juan's rescue in the supernatural cursed village?

1600, the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court troops invaded Hailongtun, and Yang Yinglong, the 29th chieftain of the Yang family in Bozhou, committed suicide. The Battle of Pingbo, known as one of the "Three Great Conquests of Wanli", came to an end. Huang Shansong is an ordinary calligraphy and painting teacher in a certain street in Shanghai. Although his job is not important, it is enough for him who loves painting to enjoy it and live a leisurely and comfortable life. After being introduced by a friend, Huang Shansong accidentally participated in an auction and witnessed with his own eyes how a blue and white porcelain vase was sold from 1.5 Million to 180 million. He couldn't sit still, and the past of his days as an educated youth in Guizhou came to mind. He once got a blue and white underglaze red plum porcelain vase given to the local chieftain king by Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty! That was the token of love between Yang Xinyi, a Banzhou woman who inherited the blood of the chieftain nobles and was "ghostly and enchanting"! They broke up in embarrassment thirty years ago, and there has been no news for thirty years. How can Huang Shansong find her and him?

A small family left their homeland and went to Southeast Asia, living and taking root in the rubber forests of the Malay Peninsula, surrounded by ferocious beasts, alienated outsiders and lingering undead. With the sudden disappearance and bizarre death of family members, the slow and depressing pace accumulates until one day, bursting out with explosive and strange mutations. The floods caused by heavy rain sometimes lead to the other side. From the palm of death, they escape from the present world, and immediately become foreign objects and are thrown into the next reincarnation, and the cycle continues.

On a snowy night, there was a girl in single clothes wandering alone in the silent campus. The biting cold enveloped her until she became a corpse, continuing to accuse the world of indifference. There were no footprints of the perpetrator left on the snow, the corpse scene looked like a secret room, and the case ended as suicide. Five years later, the new student union president Feng Lukui began to investigate the matter privately. Although the person involved tried his best to avoid it, it inevitably hurt the scars of the past. Just as the investigation made some progress, the snow secret room case occurred again on campus...

Three young girls share an apartment in London. The first is a calm and capable secretary; the second is an artist; and the third girl interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confesses that she is a murderer, and then quickly disappears. Poirot gradually learns about the rumors surrounding this mysterious third girl, her family, and her mysterious disappearance. But whether the great detective finds her guilty, innocent, or insane, he needs solid evidence...

On November 20, 1926, a certain nerdy young man who was hospitalized in Ward No. 7 Of the Psychiatric Department of Kyushu Imperial University suddenly regained consciousness to the rhythm of the "tick-tick-tick" of the wall clock in the ward. However, he could not recall his own name or experience. However, a girl's distressed cry came from the adjacent ward, "Brother, brother - it's me - I am my brother's fiancée, do you remember?" It is said that Professor Wakabayashi, a patient at the Kyushu Imperial University Mental Hospital, brought the nerdy young man to the specimen room of the Madman Hospital in order to let the nerdy young man recall his past. There, two pieces of information were found, one was the diary of a madman of "Illusion", and the other was the relics of Dr. Masaki who committed suicide a month ago.

Shiina, a freshman, moved into an apartment alone while humming Bob Dylan songs. When she met her handsome neighbor Kawasaki for the first time, she was invited to rob a bookstore together late at night! Going to bookstores for a copy of "Guangci Yuan"? Was there any mistake? ! Shiina knew that this matter was absurd, but was inexplicably attracted to this absurdity and participated in it in a daze. This was not the only ridiculous thing that Kawasaki mentioned. The simple Shiina was a little overwhelmed. He wanted to know the truth of many things. Shiina followed, questioned, and found relevant people to inquire. In the end, he found that all the answers had already appeared in front of him. As Bob Dylan once sang, Blowing in The Wind.

Mr. Fortesco's old life was quite unstable in his later years: in business, he had disagreements with his eldest son, and poor financial arrangements caused him a lot of losses; in the family, the younger son had been away overseas for many years, his second wife always had affairs with other men in the name of playing golf, and his daughter also fell into unreliable love affairs; in life, his experience in mining in Africa made him enemies, and the corpses of black thrushes that appeared in front of him from time to time hinted at the lingering ghosts of the Avengers. Finally, the old Fortesco was poisoned to death in his office. The poison taxine seems to have come from his mansion "Yew House". A series of murders frightened the Fortesco family. Miss Marple discovered that the murderer actually acted according to a nursery rhyme.

The detective was entrusted by the insurance company to investigate the diamond theft at Leggett's house. Unexpectedly, Leggett died unexpectedly. During the investigation, Leggett's wife and daughter Gabrielle revealed the truth about the mysterious death of Leggett's ex-wife, the sister of his current wife, more than ten years ago. It turns out that they are all members of the Dane family, and have been affected by a mysterious curse for a long time. The stimulated Gabrielle sought comfort in a mysterious religious organization, but it triggered a series of murders again... Is there really a curse in the Dane family's bloodline?

Hercule Poirot, the best and probably the most narcissistic detective in the world, wanted to retire and grow zucchini in the suburbs! His friends laughed at him and said he was not worthy of his name. Because there is only one letter difference between the names of Hercules and the Hercules in Greek mythology, and Hercules has twelve famous feats. Naturally, Poirot would not admit defeat. He decided that if he wanted to take on twelve more cases, it would be better if they were as bizarre, difficult and interesting as the twelve tasks of Hercules. But of course, he's not the kind to put in physical effort. His weapons are gray brain cells.

This book is the first full-length locked room mystery novel in history, ushering in a new era for impossible crime mystery works. There is only one murder in the story, and only one murder that takes place in a secret room. One morning, Mr. Constant, who was renting at Mrs. Dutonpu's house, died in his room. The doors and windows were locked, and there was no one in the house except the corpse. The deceased was lying on his back with his throat cut. After a search, there was no trace of the murder weapon. The possibility of suicide is ruled out, so who is the murderer? How did the murderer create such a seamless secret room? This airtight room is the only mystery of the incident. Therefore, in order to solve this mystery, Scotland Yard, private detectives, various media and busybodies all attacked, trying to crack the secret room from all angles and in various ways, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations...

He believed that people are born with the ability to fly, but he died outside the studio window while flying. She begged God to punish the person who had betrayed her heart for her. As a result, while she was praying, the person was shot several times in a distant place and died in the white snow. Is the person who dances lonely dance every night a demented old man or a poor man possessed by a vixen? Perhaps the most important of all the intricate mysteries is this one: Why on earth did Mitarai stay in Japan? Standing at a crossroads in life, how is he doing now? The feast of short stories comes again, and the most gorgeous mystery and the most sincere emotion meet again, bringing readers new excitement and lasting touch.

One night, a typhoon brought tragedy to the Fujinami family. Everyone around them believed that it was the huge nan tree in the yard that cast a curse, because there had long been legends about phoenix trees eating people. Mitarai, who was accidentally involved in the case, insisted that all the horrors were man-made disasters! The beautiful film star Reoina of the Fujinomami family breaks into the world of Mitarai and Ishioka. How do they deal with the detective and the gentleman assistant who are the least likely to interact with others?

According to legend, if you commit a crime during your lifetime, even if you hide it from the world, you will fall into the hell of evil after death. The sinful soul will reveal its true form at that time, pay the price for the crime it committed, and be burned by the fire of hell for 864 billion years. Mirror Prison Island is an isolated island with a mental hospital where criminals are imprisoned. A woman with amnesia woke up from her dream and found herself in this isolated mental hospital. Full of fear, she had to face hundreds of mentally ill criminals. In her contact with everyone, she realized that her life experience might not be that simple. Who is she? How will she escape from this island full of lies?

Maureen, the owner of a used bookstore, has extraordinary memory and reasoning abilities. His detective sister got back the file of an old case and wanted to use him as a "free consultant" to find the real culprit. On a civil aircraft at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the magician died in the bathroom that was like a secret room. At the same time as the tragedy occurred, a stewardess also disappeared from the cabin. In the vast sky, where did she go? However, there are more than one bizarre and unbelievable cases: a woman burned to ashes in a locked basement, a man smashed to pieces in a glass chamber at the top of a building, a murderer who disappeared in full view of the night school podium, a hellish scene in the hotel room... The Morin family seems to be trapped in a secret chamber of time, drifting towards the other side of the surprising truth.

A strange room with clocks everywhere, an unknown male corpse lying on the floor, a lost young girl, a blind old woman, a strange crescent-shaped street, a group of mysterious residents with their own hidden agendas... Another murder is brewing, and time is passing by. This time, the great detective Hercule Poirot located the murderer in a wheelchair.

Graham Greene is one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century. He is extremely pessimistic and world-weary, but he is most concerned about the struggle and redemption of the soul. Green divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "entertainment novels". "Brighton Lollipop" is one of the most famous "serious novels". It uses the shell of a gangster-detective novel to stage a spiritual tragedy that explores sin and redemption. "Brighton Lollipop" is Green's first serious work. The so-called serious means that the work explores certain issues in life worth pondering. Greene paid great attention to exploring the crisis of faith and crime in his novels, and his popularity has been enduring.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian wanted to hold a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven. Suddenly, Youzhou City heard that the evil beast Qilin was raging, state officials were killed, the people were stained with blood, and rumors of bad omens from the sky emerged. Di Renjie went to Youzhou for investigation, and there were murderous intentions all the way. It was a quiet night, and corpses were dismembered by the window next to the inn. During the night banquet at the palace, an evil unicorn fell from the sky. Outside the northern border, the new wind was blowing, and the Turkic forces were watching the sun. In the court hall, there were rapids and undercurrents, and the Wu family and the Li Tang forces were mediating. Gloomy ghost caves, secret shadows, and conspiracies are hidden in the darkness; war horses neigh, and iron swords clang, an unprecedented war that is eliminated by compassion... In the murderous situation and the flames of war, watch an unprecedented gambling between the country and the people!

"Our Signature Dishes" collects thirteen short stories by American suspense master Stanley Allin, showing readers a weird world like Allin: curious diners are eager for the signature dishes that are served from time to time in a mysterious restaurant, and constantly beg the restaurant owner to let him visit the kitchen to explore the secrets of cooking delicious dishes. Finally one day, the restaurant owner generously opened the door to the mysterious kitchen for him... How will the orderly Mr. Appleby deal with his sixth wife? The unattainable wealthy family is just around the corner. Can handsome Arthur get what he wants and get the best of everything?