Madame Chiang always stunning in her silk gowns could be as coy and kittenish as a college coed or as commanding and petty as a dormitory house mother.

穿绸旗袍的蒋夫人像小猫似地很迷人。她可以像一个男女同校的大学女生一样忸怩作态，也可以像看管女生宿舍的大妈一样威严和小心眼儿。

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The most popular was Anthony Horowitz's authorised sequel, The House of Silk, followed by a miniature edition of Conan Doyle's Essential Mysteries.

其中最受欢迎的是安东尼·霍罗威茨所著的《丝之屋》，其次是柯南·道尔所著的《终极奥秘》的袖珍版。 《丝之屋》是柯南·道尔产权会唯一认证的福尔摩斯新故事。

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The great merit of "The House of Silk" is the enormous debt that Mr. Horowitz clearly thinks he owes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk

No matter how devious the mystery, and violent the detail, no alert reader of "The House of Silk" will be able to spend more than a half-dozen pages in its company without wanting to laugh.

WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk

On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.

WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk