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1901年,一名年轻女子的尸体在英格兰乡村的一个池塘里被发现,她喉咙上疑似吸血鬼留下的咬痕,后来有人看见早已死去的她,在夜间游荡。
在附近一座被毁坏的修道院里,两具棺材被打开,木桩穿过两具女性尸体的心脏,其中一具似乎刚刚才下葬!
发现水中尸体的教授在一个受到持续监视的房间里被谋杀,凶手如一股青烟神秘消失!墓地青烟,鬼魂游离,吸血鬼的传言不胫而走。
欧文·伯恩斯将破解这一系列离奇诡谲的不可能犯罪。
It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who found the drowned woman is murdered in a room under constant surveillance, where the killer literally vanishes in a puff of smoke! Rumors of vampirism abound. The main suspect’s reflection cannot be see in a mirror...
Owen Burns is called in and sent a clue to a previously unsolved impossible murder, tied to the professor’s death... A complex and ingenious tale with a romantic Gothic atmosphere.
Locked Room International translates and publishes impossible crime novels by authors living and dead
作者简介
保罗·霍尔特,当代法国侦探小说作家,硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家,被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品,代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作,以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点,凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者,成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位,是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。
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