ちょっと引っ込み思案な女の子・夕星アリス。冒険家のお父さんから「今回の旅は危険だから連れていけない」と言われ、預けられた先は１３階のビルの空中庭園にある【ペンギン探偵社】！

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.

イギリスの小説家アーサー・コナン・ドイルによる「シャーロック･ホームズ」シリーズの一作（短編小説）。三上於莵吉訳。ある冬の夜、探偵ホームズは相棒ワトスンに内容が暗号になったある手紙を見せる。

アルクの月刊誌『ENGLISH JOURNAL』に2016～2019年に掲載されたハリウッドスターのインタビューから、9本を選び収録。

"Traitor's Hands" is a short story by Agatha Christie that was published in Flynn's, a weekly pulp magazine, in the edition of 31 January 1925. This short story was later published as "Witness for the Prosecution".

身を隠すのが巧みで、“グレイマン(人目につかない男)"と呼ばれる凄腕の暗殺者ジェントリー。

E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

旧友の招きでスタイルズ荘を訪れたヘイスティングズは到着早々事件に巻き込まれた。