《TheSilentWorldofNicholasQuinn（平裝）》是2000年MacmillanELT(2000年9月6日)出版社出版的圖書，作者是ColinDexter。
基本介紹
- 作者：Colin Dexter
- ISBN：9780333925874
- 頁數：96 頁
- 定價：39.0
- 出版社：Macmillan ELT (2000年9月6日)
- 出版時間：2000年09月
- 裝幀：平裝
內容介紹,作者介紹,
內容介紹
Who prepares the exams for foreign high-schoolers who want to go to college in England? Why, the five executives of Oxford's Foreign Exams Syndicate, of course, one of whom, deaf bachelor Nicholas Quinn, is found dead of cyanided sherry. Chief Inspector Morse suspects that Nicholas stumbled (via lip-reading) onto a security leak (the selling of forthcoming test questions to oil sheiks with dumb sons), but the inventive alibis and miscellaneous lies of the four - then three - surviving test-makers keep him guessing. In its better moments, Morse's literate and labyrinthine investigation recalls the lighter sorties of Dorothy L. Sayers, delicately balancing wry Whimsy with real problems - frustration, loneliness. A bit too complex for its own good (the next-to-last solution is yeastier than the last), this will nonetheless bring coos of delight from readers who prefer, if not a Silent World, the sort of quiet, seemingly civilized setting that makes murder seem such a startling and special event. (Kirkus Reviews)
作者介紹
柯林·德克斯特，英國著名推理作家，偵探莫爾斯督查創造者。曾於1979年、1981年兩度獲英國推理作家協會頒贈銀匕首獎，1989年更上層樓，囊獲金匕首獎的最高榮譽。中文譯作有《最後的衣著》，《昆恩的靜默世界》。
