读心侦探（美国国会图书馆经典犯罪推理系列） Average Jones

基本信息

Series:Library of Congress Crime Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 304 pages

Publisher:Sourcebooks, Inc

Imprint:Poisoned Pen Press

ISBN:9781464215933

Published:7 Jul 2022

Weight:364g

Dimensions:140 x 216 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“琼斯，你有一种罕见的能力。当你选择的时候，你可以把你的头脑打磨得非常精细。专攻吧，我的孩子，专攻吧。”

阿德里安·范·雷彭·埃格顿·琼斯——朋友们称他为“普通人”——自大学毕业以来的五年里，他一直在“专攻生活”，沉迷于他的流浪癖，每年靠两万五千美元过着舒适的生活。为了继承他已故叔叔留下的数百万美元，普通人需要在纽约市连续居住五年。他已经厌倦了，他的朋友沃尔德马和伯特伦建议他培养一项爱好。报社老板沃尔德马建议他成为一名“广告顾问”——代表客户调查分类广告，以铲除骗子。

正如他的大学教授所说，琼斯拥有一种特殊的专注力，这使他能够注意到别人错过的细节。在调查不寻常甚至离奇的广告的过程中，他偶然发现了真正的犯罪案件——他发现自己天生就是干这行的。为什么有人会在一天中的特定时间在某条街上招聘一名音乐家演奏降 B 调长号？或者为有关斗牛犬死亡的信息提供异常高的悬赏？一条完全用针尖写成的信息能代表什么意思？那个只会说拉丁语的人是谁？这些和其他诱人的谜题会让读者渴望花更多时间与这个不平凡的琼斯相处。

"You have one rare faculty, Jones. You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize."

Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones ―"Average," to his friends―has spent the five years since graduation from college "specializing in life," indulging his wanderlust and living comfortably on twenty-five thousand a year. In order to inherit the millions that his late uncle has bequeathed, Average must spend five continuous years as a resident of New York City. Already bored, he is advised by his friends Waldemar and Bertram to take up a hobby. Waldemar, a newspaper owner, suggests that he become an "Ad-Visor"―someone who investigates classified ads on behalf of clients to root out swindlers.

As his college professor had opined, Jones possesses a particular singularity of focus, which allows him to notice details that others miss. In the process of investigating unusual and downright bizarre advertisements, he stumbles into solving actual crimes―and he finds he was born to it. Why would someone advertise for a musician to play a B-flat trombone in a certain street at a specific time of day? Or offer an unusually large reward for information about the death of a bulldog? What can be the meaning of a message written entirely in pinpricks? Who is the man who speaks only in Latin? These and other tantalizing puzzles will leave the reader eager to spend more time with the decidedly not-Average Jones.

作者简介

塞缪尔·霍普金斯·亚当斯（1871 年 1 月 26 日 - 1958 年 11 月 16 日）是一位美国作家，以调查性新闻闻名。他著有四十多本书、无数杂志文章，作为一名记者，他推动了联邦食品和药品法的通过，该法至今仍在保护消费者。

SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS (January 26, 1871 –November 16, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism. He authored over forty books, countless magazine articles, and as a reporter was instrumental in the passage of the Federal Food and Medicine laws which protect consumers to this day.