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宝石にとり憑かれた女の破滅的生活を追う「魅惑の輝き」「都会人の異常な心理」を巧みに描いた直木賞作家の傑作短編

青酸ソーダを飲んで、女性が死んだ。自殺・他殺両面で捜査をしていた警察だったが、女性が死ぬ直前に大物元衆議院議員の妻の元を訪ねていたことを突き止めた。犯人が知られたくなかった真実は･･･　謎解きだけに終わらない繊細な心情表現を、テンポのいい文体でお楽しみください。

'The one book that has satisfied me completely – the book I always wanted to write.' Agatha Christie. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her….

Myer lives on a NZ mountain farm with her border collie, chickens, sheep and her faithful horse, Mustard. She hunts and forages, and barely leaves the mountain, only venturing into town to stock up on provisions once or twice a month.

Crime reporter Britt Montero's dreams have been haunting her. She had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is torturing her. Meanwhile, a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom - and Britt's life - hoping to do research for the character he portrays: a secret agent undercover as a Miami crime reporter. An obsessed madwoman stalks the star, and mysterious mishaps, accidents, and deaths push Britt and the star closer together. Both are menaced by the stalker. Or is it someone else who is determined to sabotage the film and kill the star?

Acre, AD 1291: As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace.

Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months, she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin...to the 250,000-acre spread known as Sunbridge and into the tantalizing world of the Texas rich. In a vast land dominated by the industrious Colemans, Billie fights to maintain control of her life and her marriage.

An enigmatic policeman - currently the subject of an internal investigation - is found burned to death in his car on the Southend seafront. A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover the truth behind the sudden death of her best friend. As DS Frank Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex Police Major Investigation Team are brought in to solve the mystery that surrounds their colleague's death, they're under intense pressure to crack the case without damaging the force's reputation.

Joe Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence lawyer. Sam Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective. Both bear the burden of the unsolved murder of their sister fifteen years earlier. And both have a stake in a new series of murders that has shaken their city to its core. Ronnie Bagley is locked up and facing trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby and there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: Joe Parker.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.

『いらっしゃいまし。お珍らしい雨で御座いますナアどうも……こうもダシヌケに降り出されちゃ敵かないません。 いつも御贔屓ひいきになりまして……ま……おかけ下さいまし。一服お付けなすって……ハハア。傘をお持ちにならなかった。ヘヘ、どうぞ御ゆっくり……そのうち明るくなりましょう。』 とある東京の古本屋。夏もあらかた過ぎ、季節はずれの激しい夕立の中、ずぶ濡れになったお客がひとり。古本屋の主人は古本屋稼業の日常などの四方山話を語り始めた。 話はひょんなことから、医専の生徒が持ち込んだ一六二六年に英国で出版された筆写本。曰くつきの"聖書"の話に。世界中にたった一冊しかないと噂に聞いたデュッコ・シュレーカーのBOOK OF DEVIL PRAYER(外道祈祷書)『悪魔の聖書』だった。豪雨の中の鄙びた古本屋。店の中にはずぶ濡れの大学教授と、怪しげな店主の二人きり。物語は思わぬ方向に進み・・・。

巣箱から除く邪悪な目。絶対に語ってはいけない話。死んでいるのに気付かない男。霊を届けにくる女……。彼岸と此岸の境を失ったとき、人は人ならぬものとなって彷徨う。大好評の実話怪談、第６弾！

John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The ABC Murders: A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer. After the Funeral: A wealthy businessman is dead, and his sister thinks it was murder. Death on the Nile: Poirot is in Egypt when a chilling murder takes place. Peril at End House: Whilst on holiday, the sleuth encounters a young woman, a hat and a bullet. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Mrs Farrars is found dead, one year after the death of her husband.

As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.

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.

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

「私はダニエル・アプトン。親友エドワード・ダービィの死について、真実を語ろう。私たちふたりのあいだには、様々のことが起こり、確かに私は親友の頭に六発の弾丸を撃ち込んだ。だがそれでも私はこの告白によって、彼を殺したのは私でないことを示したい。」H・P・ラヴクラフトが源流を作った「クトゥルー神話」の一部と見なされる短編。(C)PanRolling

「大人のための」と断つたのは、子供には毒性がいささか強すぎるのと、話の性質思はずエロティックに傾くことがあつたのとで、大人の方により一層喜ばれさうだからです。 ・・・・・あとがき より

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.