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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感谢民翻!!死亡邀约,小细节起大作用,最简单的方法往往最有效,然而天上谜面地上解答,多重伪解答反转亦故弄玄虚,无面尸诡计不及昨日所看横沟正史《黑猫酒馆事件》有新意,失意的侦探小说家是霍尔特自况麽,
评分感谢民翻!!死亡邀约,小细节起大作用,最简单的方法往往最有效,然而天上谜面地上解答,多重伪解答反转亦故弄玄虚,无面尸诡计不及昨日所看横沟正史《黑猫酒馆事件》有新意,失意的侦探小说家是霍尔特自况麽,
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/】
评分感谢民翻。可是这堆解答也太糊了,剧情的推动处理也很糊,神特么鸭子……
评分解答是真的水,谜面倒是非常精彩
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