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。