午夜北平（全2册）

• 佩奇乔治桑

  2020-01-01
  如果男人羞于被看到与某些女人为伍，就带她们来这里；女人们则在这儿和与自己有缘无分的男人见面。他们与舞台保持距离，在后面的桌旁抱成一团。桌上的台灯射出宝石红的光,掩盖了他们的真实面目和偷情行为。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-31
  那位据称很杰出的布歇尔医生开出的处方是把盐和黄金的溶液直接注射到她的血管里。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-30
  “社交场上的宠儿往往学识堪忧！”倭讷曾经这样写道。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-30
  除非在战场上，很少有人会死于陌生人之手，无论在伦敦还是北平，这一点都一样。谋杀也是件私事。在十之八九的案例中，死者以为凶手爱着自已：丈夫杀死妻子，父母结束子女的生命，恋人相爱相杀。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-30
  倭讷在喀什噶尔跟菲茨莫里斯有过节，导火线是考古学家奥莱尔·斯坦因（ Aurel Stein）爵士横穿中亚的远征探险。斯坦因从敦煌附近的千佛洞里获取了许多古老的手稿，这件事使倭讷与菲茨莫里斯发生了争端。这些手稿被带到大英博物馆，中国人对此十分不满。作为著名的学者，倭讷也被卷进了此事。他认为斯坦因取走古代手稿的举动无异于抢劫，并和菲茨莫里斯吵了起来。菲茨莫里斯支持斯坦因和大英博物馆，认为倭讷是个脾气暴躁的人。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-29
  高警士心里很明白，若非必要，不可擅动谋杀案现场。此外，这也不是一个普通的受害者，而是老外。这将带来麻烦和大量的文书工作。上峰会施加压力以求破案，因为如果办案不力，中国警察就会在外国人面前大失面子。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-29
  她试着守规矩，远离麻烦；但她的生活并不限于一成不变的时间表和睡前的可可——她交了男朋友。人称“米沙”的迈克尔·霍杰尔斯基是一位波兰裔犹太人,是天津文法学校的明星运动员和帅气的游泳健将。他的身材会使六年级以上的女孩们激动得无法自持。
• 佩奇乔治桑

  2019-12-29
  E·T·奈斯特龙博士是一位富有的瑞典地质学家，能把中国钢铁和煤炭的储量估计到最精确的程度（精确到吨）。
• 水色

  2019-07-21
  罗伊的父系血统相当优秀：他的祖父曾是总理衙门的高级官员，总理衙门是清政府中主管外交事务的部门；他的姑外祖母名朱其慧，思想时髦独立，在当时很有名气，与袁世凯政府的财政总长(曾短时间任总理)熊希龄成了婚。
• 水色

  2019-07-19
  人们很容易就能发现，在这条街上，斯诺家最令人过目难忘。然而这里似乎戒备森严：墙头嵌着碎玻璃防范入侵者，大门外站着四个看起来很凶的中国年轻人。他们可能来自山东，数百年来那个省份的男人都是中国军队的骨干力量。一个火盆照亮了大门和那四个守卫。他们身佩大刀，刀鞘系在身側，站得笔直，双臂抱在胸前，面色坚定。
• 水色

  2019-07-19
  大多数妓院修了院墙。它们被匆忙建成，虽然灰泥抹得乱七八糟，但墙外的人无从窥视墙内。其入口大门处由白俄大汉和外表凶狠的中国人把守，后者通常来自山东，那里的男人的块头和凶恶程度据说在全中国首屈一指。
• 水色

  2019-07-19
  然而，倭讷的证据面临的命运正是被“借故拖延”和“置之不理”。它们被弃置在外交部的档案库里，与无数其他抵达伦敦的文件为伍。当时伦敦正遭到“闪电战”袭击，深受战乱之苦，没人在读了倭讷的来信后联系他。他的独女被谋杀一案从未重启。 就这样，她被历史遗忘了。北平的外侨现已随风四散，辗转流离到全世界各个遥远的角落。中国和日本斗得难解难分，整个世界坠入了战争深渊，战火吞噬了认识帕梅拉的人。 有那么多的人曾被卷入此案，此案也反映了这个世界的命运。帕梅拉在天津的男友米沙・霍杰尔斯基加入美国空军，飞越被轴心国占领的欧洲上空执行空袭任务，后在战场上丧生。1943年夏，盟军针对纳粹控制的罗马尼亚普洛耶什帝( Ploesti)油田发动了大规模空袭，他的飞机在行动中被击落。曾陪帕梅拉吃了她生前最后一餐的韩守清回到奉天老家，加入中国人的抵抗军。1940年，他落入可怕的日本宪兵队之手，后被处决。在天津，许多人仍然相信凶手是悉尼・耶茨。当这位校长和其家人被驱逐出中国后，他们甚至等不及下班去伦敦的船，就先渡海到神户，随后去了洛杉矶。在经陆路抵达组约后，他们最后才由海路回到英国。他们于1938年3月到达普利茅斯，无家可归，耶茨也无工作可做。他再未重执教鞭，而是低调地在牛津公立男子学校( City of Oxford Boys School)谋得校长秘书一职。他在这个岗位上一直工作到1955年去世，享年61岁。日军在北平肆虐，斯诺夫妇的激进期刊《民主》 被取缔。海伦后来在回忆录中写道:帕梅拉·倭讷的谜团从未解开，甚至连合理的猜测都没有……我虽然从未真正相信谋杀针对的是埃德加或我，但总是内心存疑”。埃德加的《西行漫记》于1938年出版，在世界范围引起轰动。而海伦自己的著作《续西行漫记》于一年后出版，记录了她在共产党基地的访...
• 胖胖

  2015-03-14
  Brana Shazker and Rosie Gerbert had known each other since they first arrived in China. They had a shared history, a terrible one. Both were Russian-Polish girls from Bessarabia, a region now split between Moldova and the Ukraine; both had been lured by good-looking men in their home towns and taken to London, where they were broken in by being repeatedly raped in a filthy lodging house near Waterloo Station. They were then set to work in East End brothels, and having learned their trade were shipped out to the East, following the trade routes of the Empire. Theirs were not an unusual story form poor Eastern European girls in the last days of the nineteenth century - they were part of the infamous white slave trade.There were more bad times to endure in the new century. The First World...
• 胖胖

  2015-03-14
  Tatiana and Roy saw the Badlands through to the bitter end. Though they lived and profited from its entertainment economy, they lived alongside danger too. When Sylvia was older, her mother warned her to stay away from certain men in the area, men who Tatiana knew were trouble. She and Roy moved on the periphery of their perverted world; they saw the excesses that could be indulged in across the lightly policed Badlands, and they were under no illusion that the place harboured some truly evil and disturbed people. By 1939 Roy was being pressured to screen Japanese propaganda movies at the Roma. He refused, on the grounds that he was a British subject, and that night the Roma burned to the ground. The arsonist was never captured, the Japanese police expending little energy in their search.
• 胖胖

  2015-03-12
  The Korean gangsters who collaborated with the Japanese and brought heroin into China were rewarded with permission to deal it. They kept the stuff pretty pure at first; the Japanese wanted it that way so as to get people hooked, sap their will to resist. Opium, which had been traded in China for a century and a half, was still being brought in, but the rituals around it, the pipes, the recliners and dens, all took time. The Japanese wanted drugs that were quick and easy to manufacture, distribute and consume, so through the 1930s heroin was dealt too, along with needles - the ‘works’ - to inject it. The more dope could be moved across the entire country, creating masses of addicts, the more quickly the Japanese military high command felt it could conquer the whole of China.
• 胖胖

  2015-03-12
  So she made friends with another new girl, Peggy, only a couple of years older than herself and also a White Russian. Peggy had grown up in the city of Harbin, in Manchuria, which had the largest White Russian community outside Shanghai, and she was from a solid family. They were down on their luck after having to leave Russia, but they still had a house, a fire in the grate, and food. With her two younger sisters, Peggy sat at a table for dinner every night. Her father worked as a clerk in a Russian business that traded along the border with Mongolia and Russia. The family went to church in the onion-domed Saint Sophia Cathedral, and Peggy attended bible classes under the stern gaze of Father Shelaeff. In winter she ice-skated on the Sunggari River with her Russian classmates.Peggy like...
• Augenstern✨

  2020-02-15
  这帮掠夺成性的家伙不光一起在西山上打猎，还把人类当成捕猎目标。他们眼踪、捕获然后杀死猎物，还把猎物的内脏掏空。他们曾一起追捕帕梅拉，把她困在船板胡同的妓院里，最后又一起杀了她。
• 水色

  2019-07-19
  帕梅拉・倭讷的尸体现今仍躺在北京现代化的二环路的地底深处，躺在曾经的英国公墓里。时间的长河已流淌了七十多年，她仍像她自己曾经宣称的那样，总是独自一人。