As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly disconnected with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.
Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story...
'Liveliness... infectious zest... as good as anything Miss Christie has done.' Observer
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mystery Affair of Styles, was written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.
In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-publisher relationship which lasted for 50 years and well over 70 books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised - under the name Alibi - and to have a successful run in London's West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history.
Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. She died in 1976, since when a number of books have been published posthumously: the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year, followed by her autobiography and the short story collection Miss Marple's Final Cases, Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light Lasts. In 1998 Black Coffee was the first of her plays to be novelised by another author, Charles Osborne.
(from the first pages of Agatha Christie's paperbacks published by HarperCollins)
看了电视来看书,基本套路一致,反正每个人都不是坏就是傻。不过这也是马普尔系列一贯的风格了。马普尔的世界太奇异,总有那么多曾经的,现在的罪犯围绕着她的生活。所以一直不是很喜欢这个系列。 这本书自然也有自己的亮点,不要相信别人告诉你的(读者文章?),马普...
评分杀人无非是两条道路,“激情杀人”和“蓄谋已久”。“激情杀人”是在双方陷入白热化争斗之中热血上头的后果,而“蓄谋已久”则是有目的有计划的谋杀。两条道路的结果都是人的死亡,而当有死者出现,自然故事里面就有凶手。侦探的目的就是找出凶手,凶手的目的则是逃出生天。 “...
评分 评分 评分我很少看到一部作品能在保持紧张悬念的同时,还能如此深入地探讨人性中那些复杂的光谱。这本书深刻地揭示了,在看似平静美好的表象之下,往往隐藏着最幽暗的欲望和最极端的行为。那些牵涉其中的角色,没有一个是绝对的“好人”或“坏人”,每个人都有自己的苦衷和不得已的动机,这种灰度地带的刻画,让故事的深度远超一般的侦探小说。我尤其关注作者如何处理“道德困境”,当一个错误的选择已经铸成,后续的补救措施往往比最初的过失更加考验人的心性。情节的推进绝非线性,它像一个精密的钟表,每一个齿轮的转动都影响着其他部分的运作,稍有不慎就会导致整个系统崩溃。更值得称道的是,作者在叙事中穿插的那些关于人际关系、阶级差异以及社会偏见的观察,都非常尖锐和独到,让读者在解谜的同时,也进行了一场关于社会学的思考。这种将娱乐性与思想性完美结合的创作手法,是真正经得起时间考验的作品所具备的特质。
评分这本书的语言风格,我必须用“行云流水,却又暗藏锋芒”来形容。它没有故作深奥的晦涩词句,但每一个用词、每一个句式,都像是经过精心打磨的宝石,闪烁着独特的光泽。叙述者(或者说我们跟随的视角人物)的内心独白,尤其精彩,那种夹杂着观察入微的世故和一丝不易察觉的忧郁,构建了一个极具魅力的叙事者形象。很多段落,我甚至会情不自禁地大声朗读出来,感受那种文字流淌时的韵律感。不同场景下的描写,语言的调性也随之变化:在描述轻松的社交场合时,文字显得轻快而机智;而在深入案发现场或进行关键推理时,笔触又变得沉稳而精确。这种灵活的适应性,极大地增强了阅读的沉浸感和愉悦度。此外,作者在构建对话方面也是大师级别,角色间的唇枪舌战充满了智慧的交锋和潜台词的博弈,让人几乎能“听”到他们声音中的细微变化和言不由衷。这不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一场高雅的文字音乐会。
评分这本书的魅力,很大程度上来自于其对时代背景和地域文化的深刻融入,它绝非一个可以随意替换背景的通用故事。特定的地理环境和历史遗留问题,成为了推动情节发展的内在动力,而非仅仅是华丽的背景板。读者可以清晰地感受到,某些角色的行为模式、某些社会禁忌,都是深深植根于那个特定社会结构之中的。这种“场域感”使得故事具有了极强的真实性和可信度。同时,作者对悬念的营造技巧非常高级,它不是依赖于廉价的惊吓,而是基于逻辑上的不可能性和情感上的无法理解性。当所有证据看似指向A时,作者却能通过一个微小的、几乎无法察觉的矛盾点,将整个推论链条推翻,这种智力上的挑战性,是资深推理迷所追求的终极享受。读完之后,我感觉自己像是刚刚完成了一次极其复杂的智力测验,那种酣畅淋漓的满足感,是其他类型的书籍很难给予的。这部作品无疑是作者生涯中一次重要的里程碑式的成就。
评分这本书的叙事节奏把握得真是高明,从头到尾都紧紧抓住了读者的心弦,让人根本舍不得放下。作者对人物心理的细腻刻画,简直像是在我面前上演了一出精彩的心理剧。特别是那位总是在不经意间透露出重要线索的角色,他的每一次微笑和眼神的闪烁,都让我忍不住去揣摩其背后的深意。故事的布局精巧,仿佛一张巨大的蛛网,每一个小小的细节都可能预示着一个重大的转折。我特别欣赏作者处理冲突的方式,它不是那种突兀的爆发,而是一种层层递进的压力累积,直到真相如同火山喷发般彻底揭示出来的那一刻,带来的震撼感是无与伦比的。阅读过程中,我多次停下来,试图自己去拼凑出事件的全貌,但总会被作者巧妙地引导向完全出乎意料的方向,这种被“戏弄”却又心甘情愿的感觉,正是优秀推理小说最迷人的地方。环境的描写也极其到位,那种异域风情和潜在的危险气氛交织在一起,使得整个阅读体验充满了沉浸感,仿佛我真的置身于那个热带岛屿之上,感受着阳光的炙烤和暗流的涌动。这种对氛围的掌控力,让简单的案件调查瞬间提升到了艺术的层面。
评分从结构上来说,这本书的精妙之处在于它对“信息控制”的炉火纯青的运用。作者似乎总是比读者领先一步,却又总是在最恰当的时机给予刚刚好的信息量,既满足了读者探索的欲望,又牢牢地将最大的谜团留到最后。我发现,书中那些看似无关紧要的场景描写或者闲聊,在故事的后半部分竟然都成了至关重要的线索,这无疑是对“草蛇灰线,伏脉千里”的最佳诠释。我特别喜欢这种布局,它鼓励读者进行二次阅读,因为初读时你可能会因为被表面的假象所迷惑,而忽略了那些看似平淡无奇的细节。这本书真正考验的不是读者能否找出凶手,而是读者能否看穿作者精心编织的,关于“看见与未见”、“知道与被告知”之间的界限。这种层次感,让它在众多同类题材中脱颖而出,因为它提供了不止一次的阅读体验,每次都能发掘出新的层次和理解。
评分3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
评分凶手太明显了吧,只不过旁枝比较多
评分over-chattering有时候是会惹祸上身的!Rafiel老头和Marple的对话场景就像this case's extra humourous element。Anyway, this book is attractive to me.
评分#11 从去大阪的飞机上开始,终于在前往东京的新干线上读完,也是有够慢
评分3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
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