作者：Jean-PaulTörök
出版社：CreateSpaceIndependentPublishingPlatform
译者：JohnPugmire
出版年：2012-3-31
页数：194
定价：USD19.99
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9781470086558
内容简介
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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 [email protected]
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难以想象这是一部07年的作品，此书正式出版时，托罗克已是一位七旬老人，也许他把毕生心血都倾注到了这部作品中。虽然大致框架是模仿卡尔的《XXXXX》，但这位全才并不满足于此，他在书中融入了蔷薇十字、爱伦•坡、冉威尔等古典推理作家和二战元素，将一切完美的糅合在一起，成功复刻出一本黄金时代风格的密室推理小说。前20%有大段引经据典的掉书袋，但那些内容都是必要的铺垫或与后文相呼应。虽然诡计和《XXXXX》…
粉丝的力量，这才是致敬啊
非常古典的密室作品
致敬卡尔的作品。先是凶手从密室中“不可能消失”，然后是尸体从密室中“不可能消失”，之后尸体又在另一个密室“不可能出现”了。伪解答和真解答都不太满意，果然还是不太喜欢密室。
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