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.
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.
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谜面确实可以,解答么,两颗星不用找了……
评分密室解答在各种程度上都很瞎,而真凶的身份也不难猜,前置戏份与财产分配组合一下可以很容易的揪出来。总的来看水准还是在线的,对财产动机这块不太敏感的话阅读体验还能更好一些,三星。
评分三星半吧,霍尔特凡作,篇幅倒是挺短。三重逆转犹如套娃显得繁琐,物理诡计实在无感,某个线索提示得太容易让人警觉了。过人的谜面遇上“还能说通”的解答,虽说已预期到但仍然有点泄气。
评分着实一般。谜面极其华丽,谜底就——“呃你都在说啥啊?”关于无面尸的N重反转是核心亮点,但节奏太乱,读来滞涩。真凶也毫不令人意外,前文给他太多铺垫暗示了。好玩的是用黄屋之谜测是不是真·福尔摩斯粉,不愧是法国人的思路……
评分云中雁谜面,水中鸭解答
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