Monday, April 27, 2009

Robert Adey的最新密室书单

下面是英国密室权威Robert Adey发表在Old-Time Detection杂志上的最新密室书单,列举了他个人最喜欢的密室作品。请勿转载。
  1. J. Sheridan LeFanu, Uncle Silas (1864)
  2. Israel Zangwill, The Big Bow Mystery (1892)
  3. Louis Zangwill ("Z. Z."), A Nineteenth Century Miracle (1897)
  4. Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908)
  5. S. S. Van Dine, The Canary Murder Case (1927)
  6. Horatio Winslow and Leslie Quirk, Into Thin Air (1928)
  7. George Limnelius, The Medbury Fort Murder (1929)
  8. Virgil Marham, The Devil Drives (1932)*
  9. Jonathan Latimer, Murder in a Madhouse (1934)
  10. Theodore Roscoe, Murder on the Way! (1935)
  11. John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man (1935)
  12. Wallace Irwin, The Julius Caesar Murder Case (1935)
  13. Leo Bruce, Case for Three Detectives (1936)
  14. Ellery Queen, The Door Between (1937)
  15. Max Afford, The Dead Are Blind (1937)
  16. Rupert Penny, Policeman's Evidence (1938)
  17. Carter Dickson, The Judas Window (1938)
  18. Clayton Rawson, Death From a Top Hat (1938)
  19. Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1939)
  20. H. H. Holmes, Nine Times Nine (1940)
  21. Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
  22. Hake Talbot, Rim of the Pit (1944)
  23. Joel Townsley Rogers, The Red Right Hand (1945)
  24. David Duncan, Shade of Time (1946)
  25. Eric Harding, Pray for the Dawn (1946)
  26. Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (1948)
  27. Herbert Brean, Wilders Walk Away (1948)
  28. Alan Green, What a Body! (1949)
  29. Peter Antony, The Woman in the Wardrobe (1951)
  30. William F. Temple, The Dangerous Edge (1951)
  31. Derek Smith, Whistle up the Devil (1953)
  32. Norman Berrow, Don’t Jump, Mr Boland! (1954)
  33. Helen McCloy, Mr Splitfoot (1968)
  34. Peter Dickinson, Poison Oracle (1974)
  35. John Sladek, Invisible Green (1977)
  36. Robert Gillespie, The Crossword Mystery (1979)
  37. Bill Pronzini, Hoodwink (1981)
  38. Orania Papazoglou, Sweet, Savage Death (1984)
  39. Nicholas Wilde, Death Knell (1990)
  40. Reginald Hill, Recalled to Life (1992)
  41. Peter Lovesey, Bloodhounds (1996)
  42. Michael David Anthony, Midnight Come (1998)
  43. Edmund X. DeJesus, The Law of Falling Bodies (2001)
  44. Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utan (2004)
  45. Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery (2007)
  46. Christopher Fowler, White Corridor (2007)
  47. Jim Kelly, Death Wore White (2009)
*注:Robert Adey的原文里没有The Devil Drives,但他在之后的私人通信中说他忘记了这本,所以我也一并列出。

Adey的单子显然比网上形形色色的“密室书单”要高出不止一个档次。这个单子里面只有两本书我从来没有见过,分别是Louis Zangwill(Isarael Zangwill的兄弟)的A Nineteenth Century Miracle,和Eric Harding的Pray for the Dawn。真希望什么时候能搞来看看。

9 comments:

ermite said...

每个作者都只选一部的书单说实话都很没意思,有点你有我有大家有的感觉。里面的书明显不全是一个档次的。

Fang Wu said...

应该说每个作者都代表一种不同的风格吧。

ermite said...

所以说这样的书单实际上是对于每一位作者,选书者选出最喜欢的一部密室小说(当然,里面有些具有里程碑意义的作品,另当别论);与其选书,不如多分析作者和作品的特点。所以非常希望书单能够按照作者分组,分析每一位作者的特点,然后列举各自的作品(即便是密室书单,也应当适当包括一些非密室的优秀作品)。
其实你现在做的工作就比简单的书单有意义的多。

James said...

Fang哥,你对Robert Adey这个人了解多么?网上关于他本人的资料很少啊,如果他还健在,倒真想认识认识他~~

bobo said...

赞一下Fang哥,继续按照这个单子去觅书...
Pray for the Dawn好像很不好找...

Fang Wu said...

谢谢ermite的鼓励,我会继续努力。

James said...

昨天晚上我做了一个很奇怪的梦,梦到Robert Adey在York...:S

James said...

you can email me if there are anything from John~~and btw be careful about the swine flu, it looks serious

Anonymous said...

谢谢你,干得好!这是东西,我得有。.