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
The reader will only think about how the criminal will conceal himself and what insidious means he will employ to commit his crimes 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
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 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
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 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
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 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
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 这是1938年的Monte Verita,正在召开着一场关于密室小说的研讨会。期间,来自德国的Hoenig教授非常离奇地被人杀害。现场是一间监视下...
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。
评分更喜歡僞解答,倒也不是因為詭計有多麼驚艷,隻是希望故事的結局能停在這裏吧。古典本格的現代迴響,讀完留下的印象還是不錯的
评分確實完全沒有想到這是一本07年的作品,完全就是卡爾的風格。不過前半截的長篇掉書袋還是被我一目十行skip瞭……
评分凡是緻敬之作都有個緻命之處,就是一旦被讀者看齣是緻敬哪部作品也就相當於泄底瞭。但這依然是部我喜歡類型的作品,凶手和屍體的消失加上雙重解答,乾的漂亮!
评分非常非常typical的gold age style以及Carr type,各種要素基本都齊全瞭
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