【作品简介】 “千面人”、“变相怪侠”或者“怪人二十面相”的故事曾经在日本漫画中出现过，也曾被搬上荧幕，所谓“千面人”是指主人公能够模仿别人的容貌和举止，成功地化身为他人。 “千面人”最早是出现在美国作家Thomas W. Hanshew的侦探小说Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces中。这些围绕着千面人侦探Hamilton Cleek的短篇故事最早发表于1910年，后来被收集整理成了一系列的图书。包括The Riddle of the Frozen Flame， The Riddle of the Mysterious Light，The Riddle of the Night，The Riddle of the Purple Emperor， The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel 等。 【作者简介】 Thomas W. Hanshew (1857-1914) was an American actor and writer. Hanshew's best-known creation was the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible skill at disguise. The central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books, Cleek is based in Clarges Street, London, where he is constantly consulted by Inspector Narkom of Scotland Yard. Hamilton Cleek is laughably unrealistic, at least to the modern reader, not only for his ability to impersonate anyone but for his physical derring-do and his frequent melodramatic encounters with Margot, "Queen of the Apaches", and her partner-in-crime Merode. 本书推荐人：@梅子0829 如果你希望看到自己喜欢的公共版权图书的中译本，欢迎推荐图书选题：http://article.yeeyan.org/view/339265/345338