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.
發表於2024-06-19
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圖書標籤: 保羅·霍爾特 歐美推理 推理小說 推理 不可能犯罪 歐美原版 偵探小說 Paul·Halter
四星半。謎麵的密室相當精彩,情節也復雜但是作為早期作品顯得比較稚嫩,節奏處理的比較差。核心解答比較老套瞭。比較有爭議的大概就是那個 half-filled bowl of water的綫索吧,我倒是覺得處理的非常有意思。
評分解答是真的水,謎麵倒是非常精彩
評分沒什麼大的缺點。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。
評分謎麵非常吸引人:作傢的屍體在一間密室裏被發現,現場和他未完成新作中場景完全一緻,桌上擺著冒著熱氣的豐盛大餐,仿佛前一刻纔被端上桌子,而作傢卻已經死去多時。解答很一般,謎麵中很有趣的一個部分在百分之五十左右的地方就給齣瞭相當樸實的解答,另一個很怪誕的謎團基本上算是糊弄瞭過去,總之都跟最後的解答關聯不大。
評分密室解答在各種程度上都很瞎,而真凶的身份也不難猜,前置戲份與財産分配組閤一下可以很容易的揪齣來。總的來看水準還是在綫的,對財産動機這塊不太敏感的話閱讀體驗還能更好一些,三星。
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