岛田庄司：斜屋犯罪（Pushkin犯罪推理系列）英文原版 Murder in the Crooked House Soji Shimada

基本信息

By (author) Soji Shimada , Translated by Louise Heal Kawai

Format Paperback | 352 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 22.86mm | 272.16g

Publication date 25 Jun 2019

Publisher PUSHKIN PRESS

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

ISBN10 1782274561

ISBN13 9781782274568

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

在日本最北端、可以俯瞰鄂霍次克海的悬崖上，有座造型奇特的建筑“流冰馆”，因为其怪异的斜倾结构，被当地人称为“斜屋”。

一个飘雪的平安夜，馆主滨本幸三郎在派对上出了一道谜题，只要谁先解开花坛中神秘图腾的意义，就有资格可以与幸三郎的女儿英子结婚，并继承庞大的遗产！

没想到，连续两天夜里，馆内竟接连发生了密室杀人案件！第一名死者被人用利刃刺入心脏毙命，宛如“跳舞”般复杂扭曲的尸体旁，还留下了以血画成的“死亡讯息”！第二名死者则在重重反锁的室内，被人从背后袭击！

然而，所有的人却都具备完整的不在场证明，更诡异的是，第一名死者遇害后，竟然有人在腾空的三楼窗外，看见幸三郎所搜集的人偶“葛雷姆”！传说在暴风雨的夜晚，“葛雷姆”就会开始活动，难道是真有其事吗？事实的真相，又是否与神秘的花坛图腾有关呢？

邪恶无比的杀意，正潜伏在失去平衡的斜屋之中，渐渐扩散……

A fiendish LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY from the Japanese master of the genre.

Never before available in English.

By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders.

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny, lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and powerless to protect the party of house guests as more bizarre deaths follow.

Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth, famous for unmasking the culprit behind the notorious Umezawa family massacre. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders he will. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?

作者简介

岛田庄司，日本当代伟大的推理小说作家之一，新本格派导师。1948年10月12日出生，自幼酷爱音乐和美术。1980年以一部《占星术杀人魔法》出道，为日本乃至全世界推理文学的发展打开了一条全新的道路。之后陆续发表《斜屋犯罪》、《异邦骑士》、《奇想，天动》、《北方夕鹤2/3杀人事件》等作品，均为场景宏大、诡计离奇的不朽之作。笔下塑造的御手洗洁和吉敷竹史两大神探个性鲜明，已成为无人不知的经典形象。日本很多作家以岛田庄司为偶像，创作了大量“岛田风格”的推理作品。由此开创了“新本格派”推理，成为当今世界推理舞台最重要的一支力量。

Born in 1948 in Hiroshima prefecture, Soji Shimada has been dubbed the 'God of Mystery' by international audiences. A novelist, essayist and short-story writer, he made his literary debut in 1981 with The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, which was shortlisted for the Edogawa Rampo Prize. Blending classical detective fiction with grisly violence and elements of the occult, he has gone on to publish several highly acclaimed series of mystery fiction. He is the author of 100+ works in total. In 2009 Shimada received the prestigious Japan Mystery Literature Award in recognition of his life's work.