I have always liked the Jasper series. Although the level is uneven, but overall maintained a consistent sense of humor. This is the story of an honest thief. Tony's only hobby is to break into other people's homes, enjoy the elegant and luxurious arrangement of his master in his newly occupied strange land, and think about his personal hobbies accordingly, so as to be carefree. However, he is always inexplicably involved in huge troubles, forcing poor Tony to rely on his own intelligence to solve the case in order to get himself out. Surprisingly, no matter what kind of trouble Tony is in, there will always be someone who blindly believes that he is absolutely innocent (usually a peerless beauty) who will come to his side to help him. Only a close group of people knew that Tony was a thief. Lovely Tony always makes others fall in love with his special status and thinks he is cool. It seems that the burglar has become a symbol with special charm. Of course, in every work, Tony will meet a charming beauty and fall in love with this peerless beauty, but at the end of the story, we are always surprised to find that the heroine will play an important role in the murder, and although she is not the mastermind, she is by no means innocent! So, the fate between Tony and this beautiful woman has been broken ... Don't worry, in the next work, the intimate lawrence block will definitely arrange a beautiful woman for our popular thief Tony, so beautiful that we can't remember the one who was eliminated in the last episode ... This seems to be very similar to 007. It seems that in men's hearts, it is the happiest thing to have a brief affair with a mysterious and beautiful woman, and then break up peacefully, without any responsibility, leaving each other with a small sweet memory ... From the works of male writers and female writers, we can always perceive the differences in thinking between men and women. It seems that there are two worlds at all ... This time, Tony's girlfriend decided to marry another man. Tony had planned to take his girlfriend to an English hotel in the country for a holiday, but now it seems that he will change his plan. However, there are reasons why you can't give up easily-that place called Gatford Hotel may have the first edition of Sleepless signed by Raymond Chandler to hammett. This is a valuable book! So I asked you to invite your gay friend Caroline to the Gatford Hotel. Unfortunately, at the Gatford Hotel, Tony was surprised to see his girlfriend Lettice and her new husband, Dakin. But that's not what surprised Tony the most. Yes, our dear trust you. How can you stay out of trouble? Even on vacation, Brock won't let poor Tony Rodenbauer go! There is a sleepless body in the library! The mysterious Mr. Jonathan seems to have accidentally lost his balance and broke his head while climbing a ladder to get a book. He bled to death, but it was actually a murder disguised as an accident! At the same time, the powerful snowstorm buried the road to leave, the telephone line was cut off by people with ulterior motives, and the only suspension bridge connecting the hotel with the outside world was also cut off. So the Gatford Hotel, full of English rural customs, became a veritable famous murder scene-Blizzard Villa! Okay, okay. There must be more than one body in Blizzard Villa! Bodies are bound to pile up one after another under the panic of everyone, until the end-"no one lives"! The second body appeared immediately. It was the sugar that Ollis, the hotel handyman, added to the engine of the snow blower when removing snow, which caused the snow blower to malfunction. After that, Orlis stepped on the suspension bridge whose rope was cut by the murderer. The suspension bridge collapsed and Orlis fell off the cliff. Tourists who come to the hotel for vacation are beginning to really realize the seriousness of the problem. They may really face a madman who will be wiped out by everyone! The chef was found sitting in a chair in the kitchen, with a cookbook on his leg. He seemed to be asleep, and a delicious lunch was being stewed in the pot ... The difference is that the chef has become a peaceful corpse! But of course, everyone will not give up a delicious lunch because the chef died. After all, everyone is the protagonist of detective stories, aren't they? We have seen the world! Eat at this time, ask if you have any questions! But Tony is busier than the murderer! Besides solving the murder, he stole Sleepless from the library. But Millicent, a precocious ten-year-old girl, discovered Tony's secret-Tony is a thief! But she doesn't mind. She thinks it's cool! In order to facilitate the investigation, Tony faked his own death and designed it to look like he was stabbed to death by the murderer with a dagger and pushed to the bottom of the water. Tony succeeded. The dead Tony can easily sneak into everyone's room to check the secret without being checked by everyone. The room is locked? Well (expressing hesitation, etc.) ... Our Tony is a burglar, and picking locks is a compulsory course for burglars, and our Tony has always been excellent in this class! Finally, Tony solved the case. Only to find that the murderer is dead! He thinks that the murderer Gordon Walport became the fourth body, and it seems that he voluntarily put himself next to several other bodies ... This time, Tony was stumped ... but Tony found a solution. In the library, the dead Tony suddenly appeared in front of everyone and started a detective reasoning show. Jonathan was killed by Laetis' new husband, Dakin, who was a liar and a villain. He defrauded Laetis of the key to the safe, took $8 million in bearer bonds, and then absconded with the money. Egged on by Laetis, I happened to come to Gatford Hotel. Meanwhile, Jonathan is here waiting for someone he wants to blackmail. I didn't expect that person to check out temporarily, but Daikin decided to check out that person. Jonathan thinks this score is a threat to that person. The guilty Dakin thought that the secret of his absconding with money was discovered by this man. So he killed Jonathan on impulse, pretending it was an accident. I didn't expect you to see through it. The snow blower damaged by sugar was initiated by Elaine, a hotel maid. Elaine has a crush on Alice, but Alice seems to be only interested in Molly, another maid. The painful Ilene decided to play a practical joke with Orlis. As for the broken bridge ... the murderer is Tony's wandering girlfriend Lettice. Lettice has a strange uneasiness about her new husband, in order to strengthen her confidence. Lettice decided to cut off the suspension bridge and let himself have nowhere to escape in the hotel. After a long time, she will settle down and get used to living with her husband. But before it could be cut off, it was interrupted by her husband, and then there was the tragedy that Ores walked onto the suspension bridge and broke it because it was too heavy. It was Dukin who killed Gordon. Gordon found out that Dukin had secretly killed Jonathan, so he tried to blackmail Dukin. Dajin strangled Gordon with a tie ... As for who killed the chef and how the chef died ... The author lawrence block doesn't know either! ! This is a tribute to old Raymond Chandler! It's interesting. You can be good or bad. Just look at it by learning from other people's mentality. I think the book The Thief in Library Management is very good. The biggest highlight of this book is that it is old-fashioned, but the author lawrence block wrote a playful style and a classic case-based reasoning model. The old blizzard villa was written by the author, not old-fashioned. The author deliberately portrayed a group of conservative British figures in agatha christie's works. Whether it's the old colonel Blunt-Buller who is addicted to the past or Nigel, a hotel owner with a certain English housekeeper temperament, some maids only want to believe that the murder was committed by Cecilia, a tramp, Miss Dimon who was sick and disabled, and Miss Hardesty who took care of her loyal girlfriend. Magical and queer, there is a precocious little girl named Millicent, who likes fantasy and adventure (this is my favorite role in this book) ... These characters are in a trance, which brings us into the classic story of the golden age, but the detective of the story is not the gentle Sir Wenxi, but the queer Tony Rodenbar, a few words of openness and enthusiasm in modern America ... Like two times or even a story background, people are forcibly squeezed into one. Not only the characters, but also the Gatford Hotel is a typical British background. Especially the library-dark solid wood bookshelves reaching to the ceiling, filled with ancient hardcover books collected for centuries, soft sofas with leather breath, comfortable pillows, dim lights, huge old fireplaces burning with warm flames, and oriental carpets with complex patterns. No wonder Tony couldn't wait to steal the whole library with a magic carpet and put it in a landscape apartment with a view of Central Park. Such a place, for book fans, even if they are imprisoned in this life, they are willing to be prisoners for life! The body in this work is the pure "prop" of all four bodies, among which except Gordon's accident, the other three just have no lines. Even the murdered chef doesn't have a name. Brock just joked that the name doesn't matter. She's just a cook. I have to say that this is a tribute to the classic cases of the golden age and even the pre-golden age. The body in classical Benguer's works is always a prop. Compared with today's works, it has never given the victims more emotional factors. Miyuki Miyabe's Imitation Offender even focuses on the feelings of the victims and their families, but there is almost no so-called reasoning. Old English mansions, delicious food, mellow whisky and wine, huge study, rich books, secret tenants, isolated villages, snowstorm-filled climate, snowstorm villas completely isolated from the outside world, corpses appearing ... these are the ultimate for a reader who likes reasoning and reading. Even if there is no reasoning in the book. I am deeply intoxicated by the scenes and characters alone. I can't resist the temptation of this smell. It is my dream to have such a home and such a library! The book keeps the light humor in the series The Elegant Thief. Tony can always laugh at himself easily and humorously even if he sinks to the bottom of the well. Lawrence block's sense of humor is perfectly reflected in The Elegant Thief series. In addition, it is worth mentioning that no matter which series of works, the hero who is a detective will have a close friend who knows all his secrets. Matthew Scudder owns Elena; Black boy Keller owns his "agent" peach; Tony has his Caroline. ...