香港奇案之烹夫

 1951年，英国乡村边缘，德卢斯家族的庄园已在岁月中斑驳颓败。11岁的弗拉维亚·德卢斯，是家族里最离经叛道的孩子——她痴迷化学，尤其精通毒药，更有着超越年龄的侦探天赋。当一具陌生尸体出现在庄园的庭院中，她的父亲哈维兰上校成了警方的头号嫌疑人。为了洗刷父亲的冤屈，弗拉维亚拿起放大镜与化学试剂，在老宅的藏书室、实验室与庄园的隐秘角落中展开调查。她周旋于警探、古怪的家族成员与小镇居民之间，在层层迷雾中探寻真相，而随着调查深入，她也逐渐揭开了家族隐藏多年的秘密。

　　一个被自己的父母抛弃的女孩的故事，14岁就离家出走的她，被当地的一个牧师收养了。后来她所遇到的人，会给她本来就很悲惨的命运带来怎样的影响呢？对于安吉拉·阿卜迪恩来讲，为了她，他宁愿牺牲自己也要与撒旦达成死亡契约，这样就可以让她灵魂永生，为了报仇，她先去吧那牧师的教堂烧成了焦土，而牧师因为喝多了而死在了教堂里。可是后来，她却在都市的灯红酒绿中染上了毒瘾和酒瘾，殊不知，她的脚已经迈入了地狱之门…从做了艳舞女郎到做妓女，发现毒瘾已让她无法自拔，甚至他觉得撒旦也抛弃了她。

　　In New York City, potent strands of bath salts have surfaced and have attracted the most devoted bath salt junkies. A young aspiring chemist has developed an even stronger batch... but something has gone horribly wrong.

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　兄弟二人生活过的紧巴巴，弟弟生性懦弱，哥哥强势霸道，这天，哥哥抢劫别人得来了钱，兄弟二人正高兴之际，一名侦探找上门来，双方发生争执，追逐之中，三个人发现自己被困于无穷无尽的楼梯上，无论如何都走不到尽头 ……　　另一边，一家人被困于无边无境的马路上，相同的加油站，相同的便利店，四周一望无际的荒野，却如何都逃不出这可怕的地狱……　　两个没有界限的空间，他们要如何应对内心逐渐升起的绝望？

　　大婚之夜，太子独自喝醉，留下姚芊芊盛装独坐到天亮。太子本宣兰心侍寝，却传来画室失火的消息，太子走后，兰心因为担心张清远也尾随而去，却被张清远告知火是他放的，两人终于决定私奔。梅儿故意告知兰心私奔的错误时间，致使兰心在雪中冻了一夜，被太子发现救回。　　姚芊芊跟郑贵妃抱怨遭冷落，正逢三皇子前来，两人暗通款曲并有了身孕。为了掩饰，她不得不通过郑贵妃向王恭妃施压，使得太子终于与她圆房，并择定时间宣布自己有孕。　　金碧瑶因被姚芊芊掌掴而与兰心、梅儿交好，并告知从姚芊芊处偷取了可助怀孕的药，梅儿因为想争宠而不顾兰心劝告将药粉放入酒中并让太子喝下，太子却突然倒下，兰心赶到并宣太医医治，原来，药粉是一种媚药，若与酒一起服用便可致人于死地。王恭妃勃然大怒，下令搜府，却从兰心处搜出药粉。原来，一切都是姚芊芊与金碧瑶的诡计。而金碧瑶也因为太子中毒认清了姚芊芊的真面目。　　郑贵妃拷打兰心，逼她签写败坏太子声誉的供词，兰心誓死不从。关键时刻，太子及时赶到并带走兰心，却在路上晕倒，兰心感动不已。　　姚芊芊收买了丫鬟向张清远报信，让他以为兰心被太子害死，并用调虎离山计调离了兰心。兰心在路上感觉不对，匆匆往回赶，正好看见张清远持刀向太子刺去。兰心以身相代，并控制不住问张清远为何不守信约，张清远却因为刺中兰心而心神恍惚。太子终于知道了兰心眼中的忧郁从何而来，又为何独自在雪中待了一夜。　　兰心幸好没有被刺中要害，活了下来。太子正想审讯张清远，却已发现张清远吊死在横梁上，并留下了给兰心的生死诀别书。