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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

私はあるとき、旧友であるロデリック・アッシャーからの手紙を受け取った。中には彼の体の疾患や心の病、そしてそれらをいくらか軽くするために唯一の友人である私に会いたいということが書かれており、私はそれに応じてアッシャー家を訪れる。しかし陰鬱で古い屋敷の雰囲気に始まり、あまりに荒涼とした周囲の風景、短い間に変わり果ててしまったアッシャーの姿、アッシャーの愛する妹マデリン嬢の重病など、ありとあらゆる物が私に此の屋敷への違和感を覚えさせた。その後数日間、私はアッシャーの気を少しでも紛らわせるために彼と共に過ごす。しかしある晩、アッシャーは私に突然、マデリン嬢の死を告げる。その後彼の希望により、私たちは彼女の亡骸を安置室に納める。それ以降さらにアッシャーの病状は悪化する。その数日後の嵐の夜に、古い書物を二人で読んでいるとアッシャーは私に、自分たちはマデリン嬢を生きたまま棺に入れてしまったこと、そして彼女が今扉の外にいることを叫ぶ。アッシャーの言ったとおり出てきたマデリン嬢は彼に寄りかかり、激しい断末魔と共にアッシャーは死ぬ。私は恐怖のあまり屋敷から逃げ出す。その後屋敷に延びている亀裂が一気に広がり、壁を真っ二つに裂いた。そして私の足元の沼は、そのアッシャー家を飲み込んでしまう…。 ...

For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer Mitch McDeere couldn’t refuse: a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It’s a dream job for an up-and-comer—if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation into the firm’s connections to the Mafia plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue. With no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm’s deadly secrets—if he hopes to stay alive…

鋭い観察眼と明晰な頭脳でホームズが今回も事件を解決する!クリスマスを目前としたある日、ホテル・コズモポリタンのモーカー伯爵夫人の部屋から“蒼炎石”の名で知られる貴重な宝石が盗み出された。夫人の部屋で作業をしていた配管工ジョン・ホーナが容疑者として逮捕されたが、肝心の宝石が見つからない…。一方、ベーカー街のホームズのもとにガチョウと古い帽子という奇妙な落し物が持ち込まれる。クリスマス、赦しの季節に気まぐれで不思議な事件に関わってしまうことになったホームズ。この事件に隠された謎とは?そして宝石の奇抜な隠し場所とは…!?ホームズの推理が冴えわたる!

【解説】小さい頃からレンズや鏡に異常な興味を抱いていた青年は、凹凸その他様々なレンズや鏡を使い、異様な観察や実験を繰り返すようになった。断末魔で苦しむ蚤の姿、部屋いっぱいに蠢くおぞましい人間の顔。首、手、胴が空中を漂う光景・・・。彼の異様な実験癖は病的なものとなり、ある日遂に、彼の身に異常が起こるという「鏡地獄」。汽車の中で出会った不気味な風采の男が持つ押絵には、まるで生きているかのような男女が描かれている。古風な洋服姿の白髪男と、彼にしなだれかかる肉体が生気を放つ美しい娘の取り合わせ・・・・。幸せそうな女に比して、男は多くの皺の底で苦悶の相を浮かべていた。押絵を持つ男が異様な事情を語る「押絵と旅する男」。 【朗読者】wis(透明感のある声で知られる女性朗読家です)

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....

The H.O.T. Cops: Trained to impose the law, but naturally skilled at enforcing pleasure. Rogan Wolfe is a bad boy cop - the lone wolf on the force and in need of something new to excite him. Now he's transferred to sexy South Beach in Miami - working undercover and looking for a fresh start. April Pediston is the epitome of responsible - overworked and under pressure as a high-powered attorney. Then one night, unwinding at an oceanside club she's never frequented before, she locks eyes with a stranger.

この作品は、二重人格(ドッペルゲンガー)の作品である。人間の二面性をうまくとらえ、かつ恐ろしく描かれている。二重人格が描かれたのは本作が最初であり、この作品に影響を受け、生まれた傑作も数多い。(『ドリアン・グレイの肖像』、『ジキル博士とハイド氏』等) (C)2008青空文庫

Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, was known as the killing field.

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon’s first students. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever.

1924年（大正13年）に発表された江戸川乱歩の本格探偵小説。それは九月初旬のある蒸し暑い晩のことであった。私は、Ｄ坂の大通りの中程にある、白梅軒という、行きつけのカフェで、冷しコーヒーを啜（すす）っていた。当時私は、学校を出たばかりで、まだこれという職業もなく、下宿屋にゴロゴロして本でも読んでいるか、それに飽ると、当てどもなく散歩に出て、あまり費用のかからぬカフェ廻りをやる位が、毎日の日課だった。この白梅軒というのは、下宿屋から近くもあり、どこへ散歩するにも、必ずその前を通る様な位置にあったので、随（したが）って一番よく出入した訳であったが、私という男は悪い癖で、カフェに入るとどうも長尻（ながっちり）になる。それも、元来食慾の少い方なので、一つは嚢中（のうちゅう）の乏しいせいもあってだが、洋食一皿注文するでなく、安いコーヒーを二杯も三杯もお代りして、一時間も二時間もじっとしているのだ。そうかといって、別段、ウエトレスに思召（おぼしめし）があったり、からかったりする訳ではない。まあ、下宿より何となく派手で、居心地がいいのだろう。私はその晩も、例によって、一杯の冷しコーヒーを十分もかかって飲みながら、いつもの往来に面したテーブルに陣取って、ボンヤリ窓の外を眺めていた――

In Danielle Steel’s powerful new novel, four trauma doctors - the best and brightest in their field - confront exciting new challenges, both personally and professionally, when given an unusual opportunity. When an unspeakable act of mass violence galvanizes them into action, their temporary life in Paris becomes a stark turning point: a time to face harder choices than they have ever made before - with consequences that will last a lifetime.

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter.

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

Tracy Whitney is on top of the world. She is young, beautiful, intelligent, and about to marry into wealth and glamour until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with stunning ingenuity, Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal determined to avenge herself from those who have destroyed her life. From New Orleans to London to Paris to Madrid to Amsterdam, Tracy plays for the highest stakes in a deadly game.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years, and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway.... But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems.

Special Agent Jason West is seconded from the FBI Art Crime Team to temporarily partner with disgraced and legendary "manhunter" Sam Kennedy when it appears that Kennedy's most famous case, the capture and conviction of a serial killer known as the Huntsman, may actually have been a disastrous failure. The Huntsman is still out there...and the killing has begun again.

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself… Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication. The Innocence of Father Brown Starts at Chapter 1, The Wisdom of Father Brown Starts at Chapter 13.

ウルタールの地には「何人も猫を殺すことなかれ」という掟がある。 ウルタールの地で、この奇妙な掟が定められるに至る恐ろしく奇妙な出来事。猫は古代エジプトの化身であり、密林の王の眷属であり、その記憶は遥かな過去へと遡る。 その掟が定められたそもそもの経緯を記し、後世の作家たちの想像力をも刺激した、H・P・ラヴクラフトによる記念すべきファンタジー掌編。