Monte Verita was once the site of a famous avant-garde community attracting celebrities such as Isadora Duncan, Carl Jung and Thomas Mann. Legend has it that its leader had himself sealed in a grotto in the hillside; when it was unsealed, he had vanished.
It is now 1938, and nearby Ascona is hosting a conference on the locked room mystery. A number of the participants are secretly agents for the Great Powers, jockeying for position on the eve of World War II. One of them accepts a challenge to be sealed in the same grotto and escape, but before he can do so, he is himself the victim of a spectacular impossible crime.
Bill Pronzini, one of the current masters of the genre writes: ‘I enjoyed The Riddle of Monte Verita. The “impossible” situations are quite ingeniously devised, developed, and explained. The author’s knowledge and love of the genre are admirable, and his skill would certainly have been applauded by the undisputed master of the impossible crime story, John Dickson Carr.’
The author of this complex and elegantly written mystery has been honoured by the Acadamie Française and the Cannes Film Festival for his work. This is his first novel, and the fourth publication of Locked Room International, dedicated to bringing top-quality locked room and impossible crime stories to lovers of the genre. Previous books in this series: The Lord of Misrule, The Fourth Door, and The Seven Wonders of Crime, all by Paul Halter, France’s master of the impossible mystery. Planned for later in 2012: The Demon of Dartmoor and The Invisible Circle, both by Paul Halter, and The Killing Needle by Henri Cauvin. For more information contact pugmire1@yahoo.com
The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
评分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
评分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
评分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
评分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
确实完全没有想到这是一本07年的作品,完全就是卡尔的风格。不过前半截的长篇掉书袋还是被我一目十行skip了……
评分难以想象这是一部07年的作品,此书正式出版时,托罗克已是一位七旬老人,也许他把毕生心血都倾注到了这部作品中。虽然大致框架是模仿卡尔的《XXXXX》,但这位全才并不满足于此,他在书中融入了蔷薇十字、爱伦•坡、冉威尔等古典推理作家和二战元素,将一切完美的糅合在一起,成功复刻出一本黄金时代风格的密室推理小说。前20%有大段引经据典的掉书袋,但那些内容都是必要的铺垫或与后文相呼应。虽然诡计和《XXXXX》一样都是中等水平的老梗,但在结尾的处理上比前者要好得多的多,托罗克聪明地使用了藏木于林的手法,让一切不合理都能得到合理流畅的解答。读毕全书,结合结局慕尼黑会议召开,二战爆发的背景,一种悲凉感油然而生。私心认为这本书已经超越了《XXXXX》,是一位骨灰级推理小说迷在晚年为向一众前辈致敬而写下的杰作
评分凡是致敬之作都有个致命之处,就是一旦被读者看出是致敬哪部作品也就相当于泄底了。但这依然是部我喜欢类型的作品,凶手和尸体的消失加上双重解答,干的漂亮!
评分Neta!Neta!整本的Neta!这才是NC粉该干的事!【简介:http://www.douban.com/note/364939949/】
评分卡尔的致敬作,特意致敬了某篇,其实诡计还是蛮那啥逆转也各种卡尔即视感,不过看书后的解说挺有意思,吐槽一句某个关键证物,看到的时候简直泪流=P.S:某个小惊喜居然是由于法语版本阴差阳错造成的,很有意思
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