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The Devil Knows You're Dead cover
Rating 4.0
The Devil Knows You're Dead Lawrence Block New Star Press · 2008 This is the eleventh novel in Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series, originally published in English as The Devil Knows You're Dead in 1993. The sto…
The Big Sleep cover
Rating 3.9
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler New Star Press · 2008 The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel, published in 1939, and the debut of hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. The story is set in Los Ang…
Proof of Presence: Interviews with Chinese Mystery and Detective Writers cover
Rating 3.9
Proof of Presence: Interviews with Chinese Mystery and Detective Writers 战玉冰 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2025 Proof of Presence: Interviews with Chinese Mystery and Detective Writers was compiled by Zhan Yubing, a young associate researcher in the Department o…
In the Midst of Death cover
Rating 3.6
In the Midst of Death Lawrence Block New Star Press · 2010 In the Midst of Death is the second work in the Matthew Scudder series by the American author Lawrence Block, published in 1976. Its protagonist, Matt…
Altered Carbon cover
Rating 4.1
Altered Carbon Richard Morgan Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2011 In the world of Altered Carbon, human consciousness can be digitized, backed up, and repeatedly downloaded into new bodies. When a body ages or dies, …
The Long Goodbye cover
Rating 4.6
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler / 叶如兰 / 陈宁阳 People's Literature Publishing House · 2024 Philip Marlowe is a private detective who, by chance, meets Terry Lennox twice when Lennox is dead drunk, and comes to his aid. Terry looks young yet …
The Long Goodbye Series: Selected Chandler Novels (Three Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
The Long Goodbye Series: Selected Chandler Novels (Three Volumes) Raymond Chandler / 姚向辉 / 成果 海南出版社 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 · 2021 This set comprises three volumes, featuring three major novel-length works by Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye, Farewell, My Lovely, and The Big Sle…
Screwdriver cover
Rating 4.0
Screwdriver Dashiell Hammett / 晏礼中 New Star Press · 2018 Short of stature, powerfully built, stubborn and tough, indifferent to physical pain—this is the nameless operative of the Continental Detective Agenc…
Invisibility cover
Rating 4.0
Invisibility 达希尔·汉密特 / 林大容 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016 Retired detective Nick Charles and his wealthy, kind-hearted wife Nora come from San Francisco to New York for the Christmas holiday, only to be unwit…
Red Planet Blues cover
Rating 3.6
Red Planet Blues 罗伯特·索耶 / 画龙 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2025 Call me Lomax—Alexander Lomax. I live in New Klondike, and I'm the only detective here. Ever since Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered foss…
The Big Sleep cover
Rating 4.5
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler / 顾真 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel and the debut of hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. A peculiar old millionaire, General Sternwood, …
The Long Goodbye cover
Rating 4.4
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler / 王纪卿 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024 The Long Goodbye is a detective novel by the American writer Raymond Chandler. Private detective Marlowe happens upon a drunken stranger abandoned in …
The Long Goodbye cover
Rating 4.5
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler Jiuzhou Press · 2020 The Long Goodbye tells the story of a series of murders. A representative work by American crime writer Raymond Chandler, it won the Edgar Award for B…
Eight Million Ways to Die cover
Rating 4.5
Eight Million Ways to Die Lawrence Block / 姚向辉 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A loud, lonely New York City, and a solitary, hard-drinking detective. The death of a beautiful woman, and a string of murders no one cares about. A n…
The Maltese Falcon (Dook Classic Library) cover
Rating 4.3
The Maltese Falcon (Dook Classic Library) Dashiell Hammett / 姚向辉 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 He is greedy for money and fond of women, yet untouched by beauty traps and the lure of cash. He can be reckless, yet handles cases with seasoned comp…
Farewell, My Lovely (Duka Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.3
Farewell, My Lovely (Duka Classics Library) Raymond Chandler / 成果 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A fugitive just out of prison asks everyone he meets where his lover is. He doesn't care that in eight years she never visited him, never wrote. The d…
Raymond Chandler Mystery Writer Series (4-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.5
Raymond Chandler Mystery Writer Series (4-Volume Set) Raymond Chandler Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2019 This volume comprises The Lady in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely, The Big Sleep, and The Long Goodbye.
The Long Goodbye cover
Rating 4.2
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler China Legal Publishing House · 2019 The Long Goodbye is Raymond Chandler's most important novel, with its protagonist Marlowe serving as a projection of much of the author's own consciou…
The Thin Man cover
Rating 4.0
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett / 陆剑 New Star Press · 2019 The first atomic bomb built by the United States was named "The Thin Man" after this novel. A master who led the "American Revolution," the founder of…
The Long Goodbye (Dook Classic Library) cover
Rating 4.4
The Long Goodbye (Dook Classic Library) Raymond Chandler / 姚向辉 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 A Long Goodbye is a story of genuine soul-to-soul connection, of people coming to understand one another spontaneously, and of the beautiful illusions…