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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三星半,密室的氛围渲染还不错,可惜解答既笨拙又粗暴,门与窗的问题解释得不好,另外两起谋杀就为了混淆及凑数,孪生子诡计发展到今天真难玩出花样,鸭子提示要有一定想象力,掉了一地鸭毛……
评分一开始诡异餐桌和祖父显灵的氛围都营造的着实不错,但接下来的节奏却不像《Phantom Passage 》那样一直持续高能,而是一下子慢下来了,又变成了永无止境的Ask。一个被害者身份就能扯个好几章。Twist从鸭子身上得到的提示太过牵强,密室也挺无趣的。而且这本和小巷那本都同样是...........算了不说了...........评分:★★★☆ 简介【https://www.douban.com/note/580769948/】
评分三星半,密室的氛围渲染还不错,可惜解答既笨拙又粗暴,门与窗的问题解释得不好,另外两起谋杀就为了混淆及凑数,孪生子诡计发展到今天真难玩出花样,鸭子提示要有一定想象力,掉了一地鸭毛……
评分霍尔特最擅拿捏的故事推进节奏在这部早期作品中没有得到很好体现,甚至显得有些冗长,灌水有点多了。谜面虽然很有趣但解答基本是糊弄过去了,好在关于密室的两个解答还算有亮点,无面尸身份的三重反转也很扣人心弦,还有霍尔特各种有意思的吐槽,比如坡祖师爷啊,爱德华七世啊。逐渐受到读者冷落的作家仿佛就是霍尔特这一代古典推理小说捍卫者的真实写照。3.5
评分没什么大的缺点。谜面有趣,有灌水但也能说是误导,以及Henrietta这疯丫头很Gothic适合拿来制造气氛,却也间接导致解谜反而是读着最无聊的,尤其最大的噱头却是以一种稍无赖的方式圆上的。水准线上的作品,但不推荐给密室爱好者。
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