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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...

Bernie Rodenbarr is a thief who has been in prison twice. This time he was entrusted to steal a blue box in a luxury apartment. Things are never that simple... The blue box was not stolen, but there was a body lying in the bedroom. Bernie has since become a wanted criminal. He sneaks into a friend's empty fan and hides, trying to prove his innocence with the help of a beautiful neighbor. Follow Rodenbarr through his crazy criminal career and you will discover that this thief will steal your heart...

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 helpless, they were called\

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\

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...

A wealthy businessman was injured to death by a heavy object in a car. The murder weapon turned out to be a typewriter. Nine important clues were discovered at the scene, but none of them led to the right direction. A detective who was conducting a routine investigation on Turkey Street met an amiable old couple and was warmly invited into their home for tea. Unexpectedly, he stepped into a trap of intrigue and cannibalism. A colonel who swore revenge took a black manservant who was good at witchcraft to settle near the enemy's house and played various scams. Is he pretending to be a ghost, or does he really believe that the power of ghosts and gods will avenge him? In the whirlpool of money, beauties, gangsters, and ghosts, this middle-aged, fat, and nameless detective from a mainland detective agency calmly dealt with the situation and survived every desperate situation.

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?

The most exquisite character dialogues in today's literary world are eight novels never published by the tough-guy soul writer Raymond Chandler during his lifetime. Eliot, Camus, O'Neill, Murakami Haruki, Qian Zhongshu and other literary masters admired the detective novels that have been recorded in the history of classic literature. They have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​​​and sold more than 500 million copies. These eight stories are stepping stones into Chandler's world and the golden key to Marlowe's past and present lives. In the early years of California, the sun was brighter, the police were more humane, and the world was a kinder place. A private detective who is going all out to find the truth is being born. He is "I", he is Dalmas, he is Kalmadi, he is Evans, and he is also Philip Marlowe. Even if the name is different, the sense of justice in his bones remains unchanged. In his own world, he must be the best man; and for any world, he will be a good enough man.

What should an enviable graduation trip look like? Whether you are sunbathing on the beach of a tropical island, wandering lazily on the streets of Barcelona, ​​or stepping onto the African savannah to have close contact with wild animals - in short, you are not like me, running into the mountains and forests, living in a strange mountain villa, guarding the clock tower with the hands reversed every day, and occasionally encountering elusive dolls at night! The unforgettable experience many years ago made me revisit this place. However, not only did I not solve the doubts in my heart, but I encountered three bloody murders in a row. The secret room in the snow, the imprisoned boy, and the clock tower that seems to indicate the passage of time... Who can help me find the final truth?

The story begins with Willard Russell, a World War II veteran who returns home. After marriage, Russell and his wife were very loving, and they gave birth to a son named Alvin. But the good times didn't last long. A few years later Charlotte was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After the doctors were helpless, Russell began to force his son to pray frantically with him day and night. After the prayer failed, Russell thought of "sacrifice." He first collected animals that were killed on the roadside, then slaughtered live lambs, then pointed the butcher knife at his son's pet dog, and finally committed murder... When all this madness was in vain, Russell offered the last sacrifice beside his wife's grave: himself. After his father died, little Alvin was raised by his grandmother. Although he experienced a terrible childhood, Alvin inherited his father's strong determination and lacked his father's paranoid fanaticism. Somehow, his fate is intertwined with a series of crazy, weird, hypocritical, or cold-blooded sinners; and in the end, all sins will be judged through the hands of this young man in some unexplainable way...

A letter of authorization and a threatening letter were sent to the private detective Yuya Kisarazu at the same time. He and his assistant Xiangyue arrived at Imakagami's house and stepped into the murderous world of Crow City. Each member of the Im mirror family has their heads missing, and no one can figure out the murderer's intentions and layout; in this predicament, people finally meet another detective - Mercator...

This is a science fiction and suspense novel, as well as a beautiful love novel. Ben Siting, the "artificial human" from the Sirius Emperor Star, went to Earth, met Nanka, a princess from an ancient glacier country, and fell into love between the "artificial human" and the "natural human". But his life experience is full of mystery and his destiny changes drastically. How will he stick to his relationship with Nanka? Today, more than three hundred years later, he met "me" in a small hotel in Zanda County, Tibet because of the book "Tao Te Ching". How will he deal with "my" complicated emotions towards him?

In the subconscious dream, the arrow of time only stops for love. On the verge of despair in the abyss of reality, making up for regrets in the cracks of time. It is not terrible to encounter death in reality. Perhaps, death is your last chance to get close to you. Judy fell into a time rift in a car accident and entered a parallel world where everything changed its original appearance. In reality, his divorced friend is back together with his wife safely. The man who once attended the friend's funeral miraculously came back to life. His mother, who died in the fire, was preparing food for him at home, but he couldn't taste it. His healthy father was admitted to a mental hospital... Every strange thing seemed to make up for his past regrets. Whenever he wants to tell a fact, he will be plunged into a ball of white light, and life will start over again and develop in a completely different direction. Judy was unscathed in an explosion, but a huge mystery emerged. The name "Jiang Yi" reappeared in his life. He had always missed his girlfriend who had disappeared and returned to him. Faced with this lost love, where did Judy go...

The novel mainly tells the story of Yu Qian using his intelligence to fight the murderer and solve the case. The story is divided into six units: Jade Begonia, White Whale Society, Thousand Years Tower, Mingyue Tower, Yunxia Town and the extra Twilight Order. Each unit is an independent case and story. Among them, the first case "Jade Begonia" tells the tragedy of the love between the Mongolian Hongyun and Furukawa, "The Moby Dick Club" tells the story of the grudge between Han Bin, the leader of the Moby Dick Club, and the Ming Dynasty, and the third case "Thousand Years Tower" involves The mystery of the identity of the royal family and nobles, "Ming Yue Tower" involves the secret of the Jin Yiwei, the story of "Yunxia Town" is about the overt and secret struggles in the prince's palace, and in the extra "Tui En Ling", Yu Qian exposes the conspiracy of the Black Star Society through setting up a trap.

One summer day in 1994, Ren Ishida had a dream. In the dream, his sister Keiko, whom he had not seen for seven years, suddenly disappeared while talking to him on the phone. This nightmare reflected reality - Keiko was murdered. Lian was confused - why was an English teacher at a cram school with a simple life killed in Akagawa, a place with good security? Although they talked on the phone once a week, he didn't notice anything strange about his sister. He didn't even know if she had a boyfriend. A confused Lian went to Akagawa, assisted the police in the investigation and took over the job that Keiko had left before his death. Unknowingly, Lian began to live the same life as Keiko. He did not deliberately investigate the cause of Keiko's death, but there seemed to be a force in the dark that helped him get closer to the truth. In ordinary life, inconspicuous clues were intertwined, and Lian found that he had just begun to truly understand his sister - why was her hair color different from the rest of their family? Why did she leave Tokyo for the small town of Akagawa? Who is she dating? What had she experienced alone in the past few years when they rarely met... As the mysteries were solved one by one, Lian gradually understood things that he had never cared about before, and finally had the courage to return to his own life and face his own reality.

Liv, a 16-year-old girl who has been changing foster homes since she was a child, is sensitive and intelligent, and painting is her only sustenance in her unstable life. Finally, with her outstanding painting talent, she received the admission notice from Wickham School as she wished. Wickham, a prestigious school, has been called the "cradle of presidents" because it has produced three presidents. Although Liv felt that she was incompatible with this century-old prestigious school, the aura of the prestigious school, leaving the foster family, and owning an independent painting studio made Liv feel that life was better than ever before. The invitation of Malcolm, the famous figure, to dance at the opening ceremony brought about earth-shaking changes in Liv's life. However, Liv does not know that the unknown danger is getting closer and closer to her... This is a story told in the tone of the "dead". Readers will follow the perspective of the victim Liv to peel off the cocoon layer by layer and explore the truth. And the truth will never be concealed by death.

Four simple and bright detective stories. Mrs. Allen, who was about to remarry, was found dead at home by her roommate early in the morning. It looked like a suicide but was full of doubts; an important military document was stolen, and the two gentlemen at the scene actually contradicted each other. What was even more suspicious was that someone claimed to have seen a ghost at the time of the crime; Poirot was... Invited, they came to the mansion of an aristocratic gentleman in the evening, but the gentleman shot himself. The broken mirror at the crime scene made the detective suspicious; a common love triangle occurred on the famous Greek resort island, and the women talked about it, but Poirot was worried.

A private memoir written by the late earl, a long-lost rare treasure, a royal heir who hides his identity, a mysterious organization keen on assassinations, and the Bond-like Sheriff Battelle of Scotland Yard, as well as secret police from France and the United States... People from all walks of life take turns to appear, and all the confusing clues converge and point to the place where the murder occurred-Chimney Villa.

A mysterious guest calling himself Smith arrives. Smith disliked Fitzgerald extremely, but was willing to spend a lot of money to buy his manuscripts. At the same time, an old woman died in the red-walled villa on Ninety-second Street. Bernie Roddenbart was not only a thief, but also a gentleman, so he could not remain indifferent to the old woman's death. While he teamed up with New York police officer Ray Kirchman to solve the mystery of the red-walled villa, he continued his life as a thief, moving between expensive paintings, silver spoons and countless buttons. No one could have imagined that Smith's real purpose was...

This is the second novel by David Lodge, a representative writer of academic novels. It was published in 1962. It is a black humor work with military themes from the same period as "Catch-22". This book tells the story of the dull and vulgar military life during the British military service system after World War II: rounds of equipment demonstrations, endless queue training, monotonous labor, and only occasional breaks when listening to lectures on firearms or sexually transmitted diseases. In the two years since they lost their freedom, the reckless and impulsive "Ginger Head" Mike and the pragmatic Jonathan have adopted completely different attitudes, and their destinies have also been very different.

Lord Wimsey's brother gathered his friends and came to Liddesdale Hall. Hunting, playing, and the countryside are intoxicating... Until one night, a man's body was found lying in the chrysanthemum bushes, wearing evening clothes and loafers. Surprisingly, he was Wenxi's future brother-in-law; not only that, the person suspected of the murder was Wenxi's brother. Witnesses come on stage one by one, with various testimonies. Where is the truth hidden?

A whimsical and strange building. An impossible crime in a secret room. A whimsical and strange building. An impossible crime in a secret room. Shi Chen, a popular original author in the Chinese reasoning world, inherits the logic essence of Ellery Quinn. His latest masterpiece has been recommended by Japan's authoritative magazine "The World of Mystery". Introduction: The Five Elements Tower is a strange building located in Tengchong, Yunnan. The five-story tower is made of five different materials, corresponding to the five elements of the Five Elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. There are rumors that the Five Elements Tower is cursed, especially the room at the top of the tower that is the most ominous, and those who live in it will eventually encounter misfortune. Rich businessman Lin Zhijian became the latest victim of the Five Elements Tower. He fell from the sealed room at the top of the tower, but there was no reason to commit suicide.

Private detective Marlowe works for money, but does not sell his soul for money. He said: "In order to make a living, I sell what I have to sell. All I can sell is the courage and wisdom God has given me, and the willpower to protect my customers, and I would rather suffer a loss." The debris of an old pearl robbery case surfaced, and the young boy who learned the whereabouts of the pearl died on the bed of the rental house. The robbers back then have been released and now make a living by raising goldfish. Marlowe said: "Goldfish? Damn it." "Red Wind" Whenever the Santa Ana wind blows, the meek little wife may look at her husband's neck with a knife. In such a season, Marlowe said to the girl who saved his life: "If anyone gives you trouble, tell me." The hot wind was raging, but it could not blow away the tenderness of the knight Marlowe.

One day, a mysterious guest named Smith came to visit. Smith disliked Fitzgerald extremely, but was willing to spend a lot of money to buy his manuscripts. At the same time, an old woman died in the red-walled villa on Ninety-second Street. Bernie Roddenbart was not only a thief, but also a gentleman, so he could not remain indifferent to the old woman's death. While he teamed up with New York police officer Ray Kirchman to solve the mystery of the red-walled villa, he continued his life as a thief, passing between expensive paintings, silver spoons and countless buttons. No one could have imagined that Smith's real purpose was...

Yugo Aosaki, the standard-bearer of the new generation of Japanese mystery literature. The first post-90s writer to win a mainstream mystery award. His work was recommended by the movie "Detective Chinatown", subverting the classic model of detective Sorry, both of us are. There is a detective agency that only knocks on doors without a doorbell, two young detectives who are both partners and rivals, a beautiful high school girl who works part-time as a cook and cleaner, a policewoman who never leaves her mouth for snacks, and a mysterious man who regularly appears in the second-hand bookstore... A group of seemingly weird people, but the cunning murderer has nowhere to hide. Katazashi Hyōsame, who specializes in motive analysis, and Gotemba Kaori, who focuses on the study of crime techniques. Even if it is a case that leaves no clue, the two detectives with a clear division of labor can solve it through seamless cooperation and tacit understanding!

"Footprints by the Gate" is the author's third full-length mystery novel, and it is also a typical representative product of classical character reasoning. The story begins with a property will. Derek and Nigel are cousins ​​and the first and second heirs to this inheritance. During a boating trip on the Thames, the first heir Derek disappeared, and then the second heir also disappeared. What happened to the two of them? Missing or murdered? Or is there something else going on? Miles Brydon, a special agent of the insurance company, was ordered to investigate and gradually solved the mystery on the beautiful Thames River.

On the last day before summer vacation, Mr. S did not come to school and hanged himself at home. I clearly saw his body, but the body disappeared and no one believed what I said. Seven days later, Mr. S actually turned into a spider and appeared in front of me, claiming that he had been killed. What I could do for him was to find his missing body... During those days, the cats and dogs disappeared; that summer vacation, my partner left; that summer, the most beautiful sunflowers did not bloom...

I'm recruit Timothy, known as "The Kid." The Normandy landings in 1944 were my first time on the battlefield. As a cook, although I also need to carry a gun to fight, my main weapons are kitchen knives and pans. Between the battlefields in France, the Netherlands, and Germany, I encountered strange things one after another: six hundred boxes of egg powder that disappeared overnight, mysterious residents imprisoned in the basement, ghost soldiers who made strange noises on Christmas Eve... While working hard to provide food for the soldiers, while solving mysteries in a cruel and ruthless environment, I spent a short and unforgettable time on the battlefield with my companions Edward, Diego, Dunhill and others.

I have a unique "physique" - I can make reality feel like playing a video game, saving, loading, and saving again... Every January 1st, my family and I go to my grandpa's house to celebrate the New Year. The atmosphere was unhappy because of inheritance issues. However, on the night when I was drunk until I vomited violently, I found myself trapped in a black hole of time and space. According to the usual practice, this difficult day must be repeated nine times before time can continue to move forward... What is even more unfortunate is that my grandfather, who was still alive and well in the "first cycle", was killed in the "second cycle"! This is a big problem that could lead to family conflict. I had no choice but to use my special "physique" to find a way for my grandpa to survive in the next seven days.

Bernie Rodenbarr had many enviable qualities: he was funny, charming and intelligent, loyal, and he also had a special talent and taste for life. Therefore, he is willing to go to any lengths to avenge his friend - to ransack the home of a plastic surgeon, which has little profit, just for fun. However, during the robbery, Bernie broke into another empty door and was forced to hide under the hostess's bed... Soon, Bernie was arrested on suspicion of four murders. This time he faced a more complicated mess than before.