[Book Description]
THE GAME'S AFOOT...It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued by the man's tale, Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston. As the pair delve deeper into the case, they stumble across a whispered phrase 'the House of Silk': a mysterious entity and foe more deadly than any Holmes has encountered, and a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society itself...With devilish plotting and excellent characterisation, bestselling author Anthony Horowitz delivers a first-rate Sherlock Holmes mystery for a modern readership whilst remaining utterly true to the spirit of the original Conan Doyle books. Sherlock Holmes is back with all the nuance, pace and powers of deduction that make him the world's greatest and most celebrated detective.
以上來自Amazon，因為中文版簡介太坑爹了所以貼份英文版的。當(dāng)然書也是英文版的，各位慎重下載?！?br />
[作者簡介]
安東尼·赫洛維茲
1956年生于倫敦。國際暢銷書作家，他的青少年系列間諜小說《旋風(fēng)特務(wù)》風(fēng)靡全球。
16歲第一次讀到福爾摩斯，之后成為一位福爾摩斯經(jīng)典探案小說專家。他是柯南道爾產(chǎn)權(quán)會有史以來唯一認證的續(xù)寫福爾摩斯之人。跨界創(chuàng)造的《絲之屋》，是安東尼?赫洛維茲對福爾摩斯的熱愛和他本人卓越的敘述技巧的完美融合.
他不只寫小說，還是位多產(chǎn)的影視、舞臺編劇。
[More About the Author]
Anthony Horowitz's life might have been copied from the pages of Charles Dickens or the Brothers Grimm. Born in 1956 in Stanmore, Middlesex, to a family of wealth and status, Anthony was raised by nannies, surrounded by servants and chauffeurs. His father, a wealthy businessman, was, says Mr. Horowitz, "a fixer for Harold Wilson." What that means exactly is unclear -- "My father was a very secretive man," he says-- so an aura of suspicion and mystery surrounds both the word and the man. As unlikely as it might seem, Anthony's father, threatened with bankruptcy, withdrew all of his money from Swiss bank accounts in Zurich and deposited it in another account under a false name and then promptly died. His mother searched unsuccessfully for years in attempt to find the money, but it was never found. That too shaped Anthony's view of things. Today he says, "I think the only thing to do with money is spend it." His mother, whom he adored, eccentrically gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. His grandmother, another Dickensian character, was mean-spirited and malevolent, a destructive force in his life. She was, he says, "a truly evil person", his first and worst arch villain. "My sister and I danced on her grave when she died," he now recalls.
A miserably unhappy and overweight child, Anthony had nowhere to turn for solace. "Family meals," he recalls, "had calories running into the thousands&. I was an astoundingly large, round child&." At the age of eight he was sent off to boarding school, a standard practice of the times and class in which he was raised. While being away from home came as an enormous relief, the school itself, Orley Farm, was a grand guignol horror with a headmaster who flogged the boys till they bled. "Once the headmaster told me to stand up in assembly and in front of the whole school said, 'This boy is so stupid he will not be coming to Christmas games tomorrow.' I have never totally recovered." To relieve his misery and that of the other boys, he not unsurprisingly made up tales of astounding revenge and retribution.
Anthony Horowitz is perhaps the busiest writer in England. He has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. He writes in a comfortable shed in his garden for up to ten hours per day. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. He has written a television series Foyle's War, which recently aired in the United States, and he has written the libretto of a Broadway musical adapted from Dr. Seuss's book, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. His film script The Gathering has just finished production. And&oh yes&there are more Alex Rider novels in the works. Anthony has also written the Diamond Brothers series.
簡介完畢，以下是樓主的一些廢話，可以跳過。書的質(zhì)量是毋庸置疑的，英文，原汁原味。內(nèi)容多為冒險和懸疑情節(jié)，人物描寫雖然很接近原著，但情節(jié)安排上，感覺還是差那么一塊。這個在此不多說，各有各的想法。然后，我發(fā)英文版的目的是：我勸大家別買中文版了= =太坑爹了，裝裱差質(zhì)量差的，我沒細看，不知道翻譯如何(應(yīng)該不錯吧？)，然后我還聽說= =有的連目錄都沒有？所以大家還是看看電子版的過把癮，收藏的話以后弄本英文版的算了。
特意轉(zhuǎn)換的mobi格式，方便各類手機、電紙書、平板電腦閱讀。因倒霉的帳號權(quán)限不足只能分為兩卷上傳，各位多包涵。最后，祝各位開卷有益。
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譯本還可以看下，英文的話實在無奈。
全英文根本看不懂啊
