图书标签: 保罗·霍尔特 欧美推理 推理小说 推理 不可能犯罪 欧美原版 侦探小说 Paul·Halter
发表于2024-09-17
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Did Harold Vickers, the best-selling author of impossible crimes foresee his own death, or did he possibly even arrange it? When two guests knock on her door with dinner invitations, Mrs. Vickers is dumbfounded, for her husband has been locked in his study for several days. Yet there are sounds and cooking smells emanating from the room, and when the door is broken down, a dead body resembling her husband is slumped over the fully-laden dinner table with its hands and face in a pan in which the oil is still boiling. The room is sealed and nobody could have got out of the room without being seen, yet the food is still cooking. A mysterious half-filled bowl of water sits beneath the shuttered windows. What connection is there with the death of his own father, who also died slumped over the table and promised to return from the grave to revenge his own death? Or the Lonely Hearts killer who recently terrorized London before committing suicide.
This is LRI’s eleventh Paul Halter translation. The author, a best-selling novelist in his native France, has written over thirty novels, almost all ‘locked room’ or ‘impossible crime,’ and is widely regarded as the successor to John Dickson Carr. He appeared on BBC Radio 4’s program ‘Miles Jupp in a Locked Room,’ broadcast on May 21, 2012. An earlier novel ‘The Crimson Fog’ was named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top Mysteries of 2013. Locked Room International also translates and publishes the works of other international impossible crime authors past and present. For information about signed and lettered editions of all living authors please contact pugmire1@yahoo.com or go to www.mylri.com.
解答是真的水,谜面倒是非常精彩
评分霍尔特最擅拿捏的故事推进节奏在这部早期作品中没有得到很好体现,甚至显得有些冗长,灌水有点多了。谜面虽然很有趣但解答基本是糊弄过去了,好在关于密室的两个解答还算有亮点,无面尸身份的三重反转也很扣人心弦,还有霍尔特各种有意思的吐槽,比如坡祖师爷啊,爱德华七世啊。逐渐受到读者冷落的作家仿佛就是霍尔特这一代古典推理小说捍卫者的真实写照。3.5
评分没什么大的缺点。谜面有趣,有灌水但也能说是误导,以及Henrietta这疯丫头很Gothic适合拿来制造气氛,却也间接导致解谜反而是读着最无聊的,尤其最大的噱头却是以一种稍无赖的方式圆上的。水准线上的作品,但不推荐给密室爱好者。
评分这本不错哎,应该是最近摸过的原版里最好的一本了。虽然还是天上谜面地上解答的老毛病(最后的解答和鸭子有半毛钱关系么,原本以为霍尔特终于要放弃酒精这种无聊诡计然后发现自己真是天真),但霍尔特讲故事水平一如既往的优秀,家访灌水也能写的很有意思,评论区说的节奏问题我个人是没看出来哎,至少比枪响两声的家访好很多吧(不好意思又忍不住黑了这本)。不知道是不是翻译的原因这本用词意外简单,大概四级难度,感兴趣的请务必一读(师兄快去看)
评分着实一般。谜面极其华丽,谜底就——“呃你都在说啥啊?”关于无面尸的N重反转是核心亮点,但节奏太乱,读来滞涩。真凶也毫不令人意外,前文给他太多铺垫暗示了。好玩的是用黄屋之谜测是不是真·福尔摩斯粉,不愧是法国人的思路……
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Death Invites You pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024