Hope to Die

　　我持續探求真相，但是，我發現的東西，實在不值一提。這種感覺在偵探的過程中，其實會一再出現。你敲開一千扇門，問了一萬個問題，只是把片片段段的訊息堆在那裡而已，直到一個線索突然跟另一個線索連在一起，才會頓時柳暗花明。你只能一直往前進，但此時，不斷有聲音在你耳朵邊嘮叨，告訴你，你根本就是白費力氣，在這個當口，要學會充耳不聞。

The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.

There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started ...

作者簡介

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.