
| 作者简介: JEFFREY ARCHER is a master storyteller,th author of ten novels which have all been world-wide bestsellers.Not a penny More,Not a Penny Less was his first book,and it achieved instant success.Next came the tense and terrifying thriller Shall We Tell the President?,followed by his triumphat bestseller Kane and Abel.His His first collection of short stories,A Quiver Full of Arrows,came next,and then The Prodigal Daughter,the superb sequel to Kane and Abel.This was followed by First Among Equals,considered by the Scotsman to be the finest novel about Parliament since Trollope,the thrilling chase story Amatter of Honour,his second collection of stories,A Twist in the Tale,and the novels As the Crow Flies and Honour Among Thieves.Twelve Red Herrings,his thirrd collection of stories,was followed by the novels The fourth Estate and The Eleventh Commandment.A collected edition of his short stories was published in 1997,followed by a new selection,To Cut a Long Story Short. Jeffrey Archer was born in 1940and educated at Wellington School,Somerset,and Brasenose College,Oxford.He represented Great Britain in the 100 metres in the early sixties,and entered the House of Commons when he won the byelection at Louth in 1969.He wrote his first novel,Not a Penny More,Not a Penny Less,in 1974.From September 1985 to October 1986 he was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party,and he was created a Life Peer in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1992.He lives in London and Canbridge with his wife and two sons. |
| Preface Death Speaks The Expert Witness The Leeter Crime Pays Chalk and Cheese A Change of Heart Too Many Coincidences Love at First Sight Both Sides Against the Middle A Weekend to Remember Something for Nothing Other Blighters'Efforts The Reclining Woman The Grass is Always Greener… Based on true incidents |
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