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In the Edgar Award–winning first title of the Niccolo Benedetti series, the celebrated detective hunts a serial killer who is terrorizing a small town
In the upstate New York town of Sparta, six people die in three weeks. At first the incidents seem accidental: A highway sign drops onto a car full of teenage girls, an old man falls down a set of stairs, and a boy is struck by a sheet of ice that had been building on his garage. But after each case a note turns up. Someone called “Hog” claims responsibility for each death, and taunts the police to catch him before he strikes again.
The deaths have everybody talking, and the local police department is eventually forced to share the case with famous Italian detective Niccolo Benedetti and his protégé, would-be cop turned private investigator Ron Gresham. A painter, ladies’ man, and rule-bending genius, Benedetti views every case as a chance to probe the nature of evil. And with his “analyze and imagine” method, he’ll pursue the killer both to stop him
本书于1979年获得爱伦坡小说奖，在本作中，尼科洛·贝内德蒂这位著名的侦探将追捕一个恐吓小镇的连环杀手。
在纽约州北部的斯巴达地区，三周内先后有六人死亡。起初，这些事件似乎是一系列看似意外的案件:一个少女在高速公路上遭遇车祸身亡，一个老人从楼梯上摔下身亡，一个男孩在车库被冰块砸死等等，直到一个叫“肥猪”的凶犯声称，这一系列案件均是他犯下的罪行，并挑衅警方称，有本事的话，就在他下一次犯案前抓住他。
随着“肥猪”的犯罪宣言，这一系列案件，让小镇陷入了阴云之中，当地警方最终不得不求助于著名的意大利侦探尼科洛·贝内德蒂。
贝内德蒂是一名古怪的侦探，也是一个打破常规的天才，他把每一起案件都看作是探究邪恶的机会，他会找到“他”，并阻住他——
作者简介：
William L. DeAndrea
William L. DeAndrea (1952–1996) was born in Port Chester, New York. While working at the Murder Ink bookstore in New York City, he met mystery writer Jane Haddam, who became his wife. His first book, Killed in the Ratings (1978), won an Edgar Award in the best first mystery novel category. That debut launched a series centered on Matt Cobb, an executive problem-solver for a TV network who unravels murders alongside corporate foul play. DeAndrea’s other series included the Nero Wolfe–inspired Niccolo Benedetti novels, the Clifford Driscoll espionage series, and the Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Old West mysteries. A devoted student of the mystery genre, he also wrote a popular column for the Armchair Detective newsletter. One of his last works, the Edgar Award–winning Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (1994), is a thorough reference guide to sleuthing in books, film, radio, and TV.
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