The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow-急箭之谜

作者：Anna Katharine Green

书名：The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow-急箭之谜

主要卖点：作者格林被称为美国“侦探小说之母”，代表了美国经典侦探小说创作的最高水平，能使中国读者领略到美国经典侦探小说的独特风格和魅力。

同类书比较： 
该书最大的特点是开篇第一句就引出了案件的高潮，让读者一打开书就被惊悚的案件吸引，从而能不断地看下去。这种开篇第一句即描写案发高潮的写作手法是同类书中极少见的。另外，该书中夹杂着浪漫主义风情，注重对人物的刻画，情节设计诡异曲折，具有美国经典侦探小说的鲜明特色。

简介：The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the attendants running down the broad, central staircase, loudly shouting: "Close the doors! Let no one out! An accident has occurred, and nobody's to leave the building." There was but one person near either of the doors, and as he chanced to be a man closely connected with the museum, -being, in fact, one of its most active directors, -he imme-diately turned about and in obedience to a gesture made by the attendant, ran up the marble steps, followed by some dozen others. At the top they all turned, as by common consent, toward the left-hand gallery, where in the section marked II, a tableau greeted them which few of them will ever forget.