The story involves a series of murders taking place in a wealthy neighborhood of New York. The first murder, of a Mr. Joseph Cochrane Robin who is found pierced by an arrow, is accompanied by a note signed "The Bishop" with an extract from the nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin. This crime takes place at the home of an elderly physicist with a beautiful young ward and a private archery range. District Attorney Markham finds the circumstances so unusual that he asks his friend Philo Vance to advise upon the psychological aspects of the crime. Further murders connected with the family and neighbours of the physicist are accompanied with similar extracts from Mother Goose, such as the case of Johnny Sprigg, "who was shot through the middle of his wig, wig, wig." Midway through the book, an elderly woman confesses to the crimes, but this possibility is discounted by the police for physical reasons and by Philo Vance for psychological ones. The kidnapping and confinement of a little Miss Moffatt is luckily discovered by Vance and the police before the child suffocates in the closet in which she has been locked. Vance finally realizes the significance of one character's pointed reference to The Pretenders, a play written by Henrik Ibsen. Bishop Arnesson, of Oslo, was a prominent character in Ibsen's play. Vance arranges a spectacular finale in which the criminal is poisoned by a glass of liqueur which that person prepared for another suspect.
范达因(S.S.Van Dine),美国推理小说之父,《菲洛·万斯探案集》是他惟一的代表作,也是古典推理小说的集大成之作。他将推理小说中的理性成分演绎到极至,这个成就“前无古人,后无来者”。范达因所撰写的《推理小说二十条守则》是推理小说史上最全面、最完整、最严谨的写作戒律,同时也被奎恩等后来者奉为指导其毕生写作的“圣经”。
就trick而言,没有什么不可能犯罪;就plot而言,没有什么很激动人心的剧情;就character而言,范达因一向不乐意努力刻画人物;但纵使它貌似缺乏让人激动的元素,却让我看得非常爽!现实的案件大多不是不可能犯罪,也没有一段诡谲离奇的过去,这就是一件最日常、可行性非常高的...
评分之前有人向我介绍说,就剧情而言,本作是范达因六字母系列里面最好的一本,读完发现确实挺有意思,故事很有戏剧性,波折不断,误导做得也还好,加上对范达因没有足够的重视,后期上了作者大当。以前听人说范达因节奏偏缓,但无论怎样,至少这本节奏是中等的,不算慢。 本作风格...
评分作为早期作品,很多手法在当时算开创性的了,细节描写不错,推理也有理有据,但对于我这种动机控来说,作案动机实在太单薄了,支撑不起这么庞大而高风险的连续杀人案。 此外,作者以第一人称写,但是叙述人自身从头到尾如空气般存在,未曾为案情贡献一谋一划,还不如第三人称直...
评分很可怜的小说,犯了和《全部变成F》一样的问题(无剧透),就是为了显得作者高深莫测,大篇幅引用不成熟的科学理论。 结果几年以后,这个理论已经很过时、很陈腐、很基本了,小说还摆在那里。新一代读者看了以后,不免觉得:“这作者是傻吗?” 本书中,作者侃侃而谈的潜意识、...
评分范达因绝对是最没存在感的华生了吧。。
评分范达因绝对是最没存在感的华生了吧。。
评分范达因绝对是最没存在感的华生了吧。。
评分范达因绝对是最没存在感的华生了吧。。
评分范达因绝对是最没存在感的华生了吧。。
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