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
發表於2025-02-02
The Riddle of Monte Verita 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 這是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召開著一場關於密室小說的研討會。期間,來自德國的Hoenig教授非常離奇地被人殺害。現場是一間監視下...
評分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 這是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召開著一場關於密室小說的研討會。期間,來自德國的Hoenig教授非常離奇地被人殺害。現場是一間監視下...
評分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 這是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召開著一場關於密室小說的研討會。期間,來自德國的Hoenig教授非常離奇地被人殺害。現場是一間監視下...
評分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 這是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召開著一場關於密室小說的研討會。期間,來自德國的Hoenig教授非常離奇地被人殺害。現場是一間監視下...
評分The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 這是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召開著一場關於密室小說的研討會。期間,來自德國的Hoenig教授非常離奇地被人殺害。現場是一間監視下...
圖書標籤: 不可能犯罪 JeanPaulTörök 推理 歐美推理 推理小說 Mystery 歐美原版 原版
難以想象這是一部07年的作品,此書正式齣版時,托羅剋已是一位七旬老人,也許他把畢生心血都傾注到瞭這部作品中。雖然大緻框架是模仿卡爾的《XXXXX》,但這位全纔並不滿足於此,他在書中融入瞭薔薇十字、愛倫•坡、冉威爾等古典推理作傢和二戰元素,將一切完美的糅閤在一起,成功復刻齣一本黃金時代風格的密室推理小說。前20%有大段引經據典的掉書袋,但那些內容都是必要的鋪墊或與後文相呼應。雖然詭計和《XXXXX》一樣都是中等水平的老梗,但在結尾的處理上比前者要好得多的多,托羅剋聰明地使用瞭藏木於林的手法,讓一切不閤理都能得到閤理流暢的解答。讀畢全書,結閤結局慕尼黑會議召開,二戰爆發的背景,一種悲涼感油然而生。私心認為這本書已經超越瞭《XXXXX》,是一位骨灰級推理小說迷在晚年為嚮一眾前輩緻敬而寫下的傑作
評分如果早幾天讀到這本書,它絕對可以躋身我的年度Top 10榜單!這纔是真正的腦殘粉緻敬作啊!一本書裏neta瞭卡爾n部作品,還有一部名作(由於可能泄底,不方麵在此透露)雙重解答,一個是復雜美一個是簡單美,雖然都是老梗但還是讓人覺得非常齣色,遺憾的是故事開頭節奏稍微有些緩慢,不過很快齣現瞭情節轉摺和我們熟悉的各種橋段,黃金時期的粉絲和卡爾粉絲必看!PS:感謝John Pugmire的翻譯!
評分Neta!Neta!整本的Neta!這纔是NC粉該乾的事!【簡介:http://www.douban.com/note/364939949/】
評分花瞭兩天時間看完瞭,首先得謝謝民翻大神的翻譯,讓我有幸讀到瞭這本很可能永遠都不會引進的古典推理小說。這本書的古典推理味道味道真是濃,但我就是喜歡這個味!作者是法國的文學界、電影界有名的知識分子,書裏的主角們也都是一群自以為是又脆弱的知識分子,裏麵還常常引用各種冷門典故,多虧大神注釋齣來。(這些知識分子真是喜歡賣弄學識)故事設定在《慕尼黑協定》簽訂前後的一傢瑞士酒店,一群人文社科的研究者就在那裏焦急的談論即將發生的戰爭,曆史氛圍很濃,有一種山雨欲來的感覺。結尾還嚮卡爾的最好的作品之一緻敬瞭,看得齣來作者真是卡爾的死忠粉。文筆很好,知識分子味道有點濃,詭計和逆轉也不錯,是一本值得稱贊的作品,本來應該是四星半,但因為多虧瞭譯者,所以必須五星。
評分仿的味道還行,但故事本身太無聊瞭(同樣是模仿看看人傢霍爾特怎麼安排戲劇性),開頭35%長篇大論看的滿頭黑綫。總之怎麼講,萬一哪天咱齣推理坑瞭,一定是這種打著復興古典本格旗號灌水的作傢害的……
The Riddle of Monte Verita 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載