Taxi"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."-- Oscar WildeIt was an early Saturday morning in October when Detective Marcia stepped into her office building. Thelma, her secretary handed her a new manila folder. She immediately went to the crime scene.Mr. Smith answered the door in his bathrobe.He immediately took her to the crime scene.“Mr. Smith, I need you to answer some questions,” stated Detective Marcia."Anything to find my wife's mur.

Wheel of Fortune is the name of a famous American TV game show. The story has nothing to to with the show. It's twist at the end will give you a moment of delight.Wheel of misfortuneErnest had planned the crime down to the last detail－including an ironclad alibi.He was leaving absolutely nothing to chance…“A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”Ernest Morgan gazed at his wife without rancor.It was a shame the time had come to bring an e.

    The story of any hitchhiker is always intriguing and attractive because we don't know what will happen in the course of traveling alone.  This story has the same feature of unexpectedness. HItchhiker is the second of the mini-mystery story collection. (Level of Difficulty : 70)A car finally stopped. Not just any car…a classic Rolls Royce!As the stolen luxury car’s engine cut out for the fifth time, David uttered a curse. Talk about a lemon! Next to him in the pa.

有趣的短篇驚奇故事，讀後一笑解憂。This is the first of a series of my collection of mini-mystery, which I read long time ago when I lived in Los Angeles, California. Since originally it was for the general public reader, the level of difficulty is around 60 according the Flesch Reading Easy scale, proper for average college students who have studied English for more than 12 years. The story features a leading character, who has some kind of mean ideas to take advantage of hie/her fr.

這是莫泊桑著名的短篇小說英譯版本。描寫一位女因為借用一個項鍊衍生的奇遇故事。令人讀後印象深刻。 Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)The NecklaceShe was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her tastes we.