Elsa Hart was born in Rome, Italy, but her earliest memories are of Moscow, where her family lived until 1991. Since then she has lived in the Czech Republic, the U.S.A., and China. She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She wrote Jade Dragon Mountain in Lijiang, the city formerly known as Dayan. It is her first novel.
On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.
When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.
Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.
这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
为什么我觉得啰嗦无聊的不行啊。看的第一本侦探小说,到底是这本书还是这个题材与我不和。也没觉得这个过程有多么千回百转设置巧妙啊,感到困惑
评分真好看!明天寫個評論,因為短評寫不下www
评分还不错啊。看到教士、草药和设计精妙的藏书阁,本以为是茶马古道版玫瑰之名,结果还是走的经典推理路线。
评分http://lockedroom.net/blog/?p=3178 主线剧情平庸,但支线数量庞大,尤其是结尾接二连三地引爆隐藏真相,十分过瘾。人物众多,红鲱鱼层出不穷,指明真凶的唯一一条伏线还用到冷知识。中间一起和主线完全无关的狄仁杰密室非常出彩。作者是中国通,行文好像在看英文版《功夫熊猫》。
评分李杜系列第一作《玉龙雪山》,主线故事是清朝康熙年间在西南边陲的小镇上发生的故事,主人公是因文字狱而发配到边疆的李杜,主线是外国的耶稣会和我国道明会之间的冲突。主线确实比较弱,但支线剧情丰富,里面还有和主线没啥关系的密室解答(很精彩!)最后指证真凶有点违规啊喂! 各种解答将支线埋下的伏线串联起来,揭开一个个真相,看得十分过瘾! 这本书真的很还原中国气息,很难想象一位外国作家能写出如此中国气息的作品,毫不做作,不违和,对于人物形象塑造,各种场景的描写都十分到位。 虽然描写的是中国,但其推理是非常纯正的古典推理,各种诡计伏线运用得也不错。 总体十分推荐阅读,期待有出版社引进李杜系列。
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