Born in 1959 in Osaka, Japan, Alice Arisugawa obtained a Bachelor of Law from Doshisha University. In 1989, he made a literary debut with "Gekko Game" (The Moonlight Game). In 2003, he won The Mystery Writers of Japan Award with "Malay Tetsudo no Nazo" (The Malayan Railway Mystery); and in 2008, he won The Honkaku Mystery Award with "Jo-okoku no Shiro" (The Castle of the Queendom). His other works include "Soto no Akuma" (Double-Headed Devil), "Yamabushi Jizobo no Horo (Bohemian Dreams), and many others. He served as the first chairperson for The Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.
Three students from Eito University in Kyoto travel to a remote island populated with moai statues in order to find hidden treasure, but several murders occur before it can be located. Don't be fooled by the bland description. The locked room murder is brilliant and worthy of John Dickson Carr at his best, and the dying message and chain of deduction leading to the killer rival anything written by Ellery Queen. Neither Carr nor Queen ever combined both in one novel. This is an outstanding example of Japanese honkaku with an introduction by the maestro, Soji Shimada Locked Room International publishes impossible crime novels by authors past and present.
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The Moai Island Puzzle 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
比起各大奬項得主們的豪言或假裝低調的悶騷緻辭,我倒更喜歡看推理小說作傢們為自己的作品寫下的序跋,尤其是像眼前這本《孤島之謎》的後序中,十幾年前的有棲川迴憶二十幾年前邁齣這艱難的第二步時的情緒,那種心裏嘀咕著“第二本、第二本”托病翹班在傢狂寫的迴憶,讓人有種...
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評分誠如一位網友在豆瓣上聊起有棲川有棲,“本格推理協會主席似乎在描寫人物上不是很給力”,雖然我沒有讀完有棲川有棲的全部作品,但對於前兩部《月光遊戲》和《孤島之謎》而言,還是比較中肯的評價。 盡管齣版社的腰封上赫然印著”江神二郎“的名字,我在讀罷兩本之後,對於有...
評分江神係列第二部比處女作明顯進步不少,就連他最雞肋的人物刻畫部分也生動多瞭,主要人物不再像月光遊戲一樣停留在符號層麵,個性生動許多。 嚴謹的邏輯演繹不愧日本奎因之名,尤其是自行車的那一段很精彩,但是指證凶手的力度不夠。雖說真凶身份不難猜,但在缺乏證據之下凶手居...
圖書標籤: 英譯版 江神二郎 有棲川有棲 孤島之謎
The Moai Island Puzzle 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載