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.
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.
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三星半,密室的氛圍渲染還不錯,可惜解答既笨拙又粗暴,門與窗的問題解釋得不好,另外兩起謀殺就為瞭混淆及湊數,孿生子詭計發展到今天真難玩齣花樣,鴨子提示要有一定想象力,掉瞭一地鴨毛……
评分沒什麼大的缺點。謎麵有趣,有灌水但也能說是誤導,以及Henrietta這瘋丫頭很Gothic適閤拿來製造氣氛,卻也間接導緻解謎反而是讀著最無聊的,尤其最大的噱頭卻是以一種稍無賴的方式圓上的。水準綫上的作品,但不推薦給密室愛好者。
评分謎麵過於華麗看得好餓……一打開門滿桌的好吃的……最大的亮點是嘲諷瞭一下過於泛濫的雙胞胎詭計,還有真凶的身份和“芳心殺手”的聯係。霍爾特好看的地方就在於非常還原的黃金時代背景,但又不局限於真正黃金時代作品的詭計。(拿柯南道爾的《黃色房間》難為人傢老爺爺太糟糕瞭啊。)
评分著實一般。謎麵極其華麗,謎底就——“呃你都在說啥啊?”關於無麵屍的N重反轉是核心亮點,但節奏太亂,讀來滯澀。真凶也毫不令人意外,前文給他太多鋪墊暗示瞭。好玩的是用黃屋之謎測是不是真·福爾摩斯粉,不愧是法國人的思路……
评分感謝民翻!!死亡邀約,小細節起大作用,最簡單的方法往往最有效,然而天上謎麵地上解答,多重僞解答反轉亦故弄玄虛,無麵屍詭計不及昨日所看橫溝正史《黑貓酒館事件》有新意,失意的偵探小說傢是霍爾特自況麽,
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