Deadly Women: Femme Fatales in Literature, Film and Television

Recommended by Luo Xiang. The forty-year chronicle of a villainous girl has been called by netizens "the darkening of the despised Yoko" and "a more realistic version of "Everything Is Fine"". Suzuki Yoko died in the apartment where she lived alone. To be precise, Yoko Suzuki died a few months ago. Because when she was found, her body was not only eaten by the eleven cats in the house, but all the cats also starved to death. Suzuki Yoko is obviously the best example of "dying alone", but why did this woman end up in this situation? Where are her relatives, friends, and colleagues? What is the trajectory of her life? This book uses two relatively independent death incidents as clues to lead to three intertwined cases. It tells the story of the heroine Yoko's personal struggle in the era, and her step-by-step slide from mediocrity to the hopeless abyss. The story takes place in a Japanese city in 2014. The book is divided into three lines: the first line is the case of "middle-aged woman dying alone", starting from the discovery of the female body, describing the investigation process of policewoman Ayano, and gradually revealing the life of the heroine Yoko. The second line begins with the case of "Death of Non-Profit Organization Leader". Two seemingly unrelated cases gradually intersected, intertwining the truth. The third line narrates Yoko's life experience in the second person, starting from Yoko's childhood to the discovery of the female body, and delicately describes Yoko's growth and changes and the process of being swallowed up by society.

Seven years ago, literary editor Lifan received a submission called "Keeping a Dog". The novel was full of brutal sadism and aversion to men. The work was rated as "heavy-tasting and demeaning to men" and was not published, and the author has since disappeared. Seven years later, Lifan received the second submission from the mysterious writer. The story begins with the reunion of two old friends from their student days. The two people with different stances have differences in the conversation, and their murderous intention becomes stronger and stronger. "Just kill this woman." As the plot progressed, Lifan was surprised to see his own shadow in the protagonist of the novel. What's even more frightening is that this novel seems to be inextricably linked to the violent "Raising Dogs" seven years ago...

The prototype of the story comes from a murder case of her husband that occurred in 1927. Thirty-one-year-old Ruth, a blonde beauty with "Scandinavian cold eyes", teamed up with her lover, the corset salesman Judd, to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope, and tried to defraud her of the personal accident insurance she had bought for him without telling her husband. 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, but the characters and events are made more typical and dramatic: 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; this time the cold beauty is not blonde but black-haired, her name is Cora, in Frank's words, "except for her figure" "Except, she is really not a stunning beauty, but she has a melancholy look and her lips are stuck out so high that I can't help but want to squeeze them in for her." Cora's husband Nick is a "soft, greasy, short, dark and curly hair" Greek who likes to sing a lot when he has nothing to do. He runs a roadside shop that combines a gas station, a car repair shop, and a small restaurant.

The work "The Fingersmith" was adapted by the BBC into the famous British drama "The Fingersmith". It tells the story of Mr. Li and his niece Maud living in a large manor in the suburbs of London. Mr. Li has a surly personality, which drives Maud to organize and read aloud books in the library all day long. The poor girl has never stepped outside the manor since she was a child, and lives a life of darkness. One day, the intrusion of a stranger brought life to Maud's long-desired heart. He was Rivers who came to teach Maud how to paint. In order to ensure success, Rivers hired Soda, a member of the theft gang, and after arrangements, Sue became Maude's personal maid. With careful planning step by step, things developed in the direction expected by Rivers, but soon took a turn for the worse. It turned out that everything was not as simple as Su imagined. A big conspiracy that had been carefully brewed more than ten years ago was waiting for everyone, and a truth like a bolt from the blue was about to come out. A gothic suspense that twists and turns, a pure literature full of nineteenth-century tidbits, and a female writing filled with life experiences. The conspiracy is vast, but hope is stirring; the deception is confusing, but love is abundant.

After reading "Goodbye, My Love", I discovered that there are some people you just can't quit, and there are some things you just can't compromise on! Haruki Murakami's literary idol, author of "The Long Goodbye", and Chandler, a master of American literature, is another masterpiece! Haruki Murakami once personally translated "Goodbye, My Love", setting off a reading frenzy! Murakami: "Chandler is my idol!" In addition to Murakami, great masters such as Camus, Maugham, Eliot, O'Neill, Auden, Qian Zhongshu, etc. Also regard Chandler as their literary idol. The "Chandler-style" writing style has influenced countless writers in later generations! Reader's Classic Library "Goodbye, My Love" is an exclusive and must-read reason: 1. A young translator and die-hard Chandler fan has created a brand new translation to restore the "tough guy" refined writing style. 2. Brand new hand-drawn comic-style illustrations, vividly showing the charm of Chandler's writing. 3. Specially comes with an original [Illustrated Book of Marlowe's personal belongings], which displays wine, clothes, cars and other items in an illustrated way - take the illustrated book to the pub and order a glass of wine that Marlowe drank. 4. Special bonus: [Marlowe's Map of Los Angeles], original map and landmark illustrations, taking you through Chandler's Sin City. The desperado who had just been released from prison was looking around for his lover's whereabouts. He didn't care that his lover had never visited the prison or written a letter in eight years. The day he was released from prison, he bought new clothes and looked for her everywhere. He just wanted to see her, he just loved her, but his lover... "Hello, honey, long time no see."

The original novel of "Double Indemnity", the pinnacle of Hollywood noir classics. Insuranceman Hef met the businessman's beautiful wife Phyllis, and fell in love without knowing it, and gradually couldn't extricate himself. The two conspired to murder Phyllis's husband through a series of ingenious means in exchange for double the insurance premium. Things plummeted towards the abyss in twists and turns. Hef had tried his best, but in the end he still found that there was a terrible hole in his cognition. Does Phyllis really share his heart? What kind of invisible and unpredictable hands are behind the conspiracy?

The story begins in Monte Carlo. The heroine falls in love with the fashionable widower Maxim at first sight and quickly agrees to his sudden marriage proposal. Alone, she had been someone else's companion for so long, and she couldn't believe her luck. It wasn't until she came to Maxim's magnificent country estate, Manderley, that she realized that every corner of their new life was still shrouded in the shadow of Maxim's late wife, as if this evil spirit would crawl out of the grave, threaten and destroy their marriage.

The novel describes a college student, Raskolnikov, who was forced to drop out of the law department due to poverty and struggled to survive on the financial support of his mother and sister. He arrogantly thought he could act as a judge in this dark reality, so he killed a social pest - the loan shark pawnshop owner, and in panic, he killed the other's sister. After committing this murder, he was in an extremely painful conflict and could not shake off his fear. He tried to convince himself that killing the man was just and a great effort for his ideals, but he could not calm his conscience. In the end, inspired by the prostitute Sonia, he chose to surrender to the police and was sentenced to eight years of exile in Siberia. Soon Sonia also arrived there, the two began to fall in love, and Raskolnikov was reborn. "Crime and Punishment" is not only Dostoevsky's masterpiece, but also represents the highest level of Russian literature. The accurate grasp and description of reality and human nature, as well as the profound pursuit and understanding of grace and redemption, make it transcend cultural boundaries and spread widely around the world.

Love is not the ultimate reliance. Only when you retreat to the bottom line, you will find that the emotion that is silently accompanying you is the truly worthwhile emotion. A collection of three touching short healing stories, Cai Zhiheng uses words to warm you up during the low points in your life.

She is young, beautiful, the heir to a huge inheritance, and rises into London's upper class overnight. However, with her arrival, murders occurred one after another in London: a young nurse's head was missing; a banker committed suicide; a theater actor was buried in a sea of ​​fire; a private detective was buried underwater... Each of these seemingly unrelated horrific cases was inextricably linked to her. Everyone who tries to uncover her true face unknowingly falls into her carefully planned trap... The evil woman is charming, beautiful, bad and cruel!