温柔的犯罪者（美国国会图书馆经典犯罪推理系列） A Gentle Murderer

基本信息

Series:Library of Congress Crime Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 288 pages

Publisher:Sourcebooks, Inc

Imprint:Poisoned Pen Press

ISBN:9781728271958

Published:7 Apr 2023

Dimensions:216 x 140 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

评论家安东尼·鲍彻称赞这部由大师多萝西·索尔兹伯里·戴维斯创作的经典故事是“现代杰出的侦探故事之一”，故事结合了悬念和心理洞察力，讲述了一位牧师和一位警探争分夺秒地寻找一位自认罪犯，以免他再次被迫犯罪的故事。

“请宽恕我，神父，因为我犯了罪……”

达菲神父多年来听过许多忏悔，但没有一个像他今晚听到的忏悔那样令人不安。就在神父准备离开时，一名年轻男子走进忏悔室；他因无法控制的愤怒杀死了一名妇女而心烦意乱——而且他仍然挥舞着他用来做这件事的锤子。达菲神父试图说服这名年轻人向警方自首，但他像出现时一样突然逃跑了。

第二天，当牧师得知一名护送人员在东区被棍棒打死时，他开始寻找这位陷入困境的忏悔者。与此同时，纽约警察局的警长本·戈德史密斯深入调查。两人都不知道对方正在寻找凶手，两人都抱着一线希望，希望能够在凶手再次作案之前找到他。

Hailed by critic Anthony Boucher as "one of the best detective stories of modern times," this classic tale by Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis combines suspense and psychological insight as a priest and a detective both race to find a self-confessed murderer before he is compelled to kill again.

"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned ..."

Father Duffy has heard many confessions through the years, but none quite so disturbing as the one he's heard tonight. A young man enters the confessional just as the priest is readying to leave for the evening; he's distraught that he has killed a woman in a paroxysm of uncontrollable rage-¬and he's still wielding the hammer he used to do the deed. Father Duffy tries to convince the young man to turn himself in to the man, but he flees just as suddenly as he had appeared.

When the priest learns the next day that an escort was found bludgeoned to death on the East Side, he sets out to search for the troubled confessor. Meanwhile, Sergeant Ben Goldsmith of the NYPD is drawn deep into the official investigation. Neither is aware that the other is searching for the murderer, and both hope against hope that they're able to find the killer before he strikes again.

作者简介

多萝西·索尔兹伯里·戴维斯 (1916 - 2014) 出生于芝加哥，在开始创作犯罪小说之前，她曾在那里从事广告工作、担任研究图书管理员和《The Merchandiser》的编辑。她的小说探索心理悬疑，曾八次获得埃德加奖提名。她还于 1956 年担任美国侦探作家协会主席，并于 1985 年被美国侦探作家协会任命为大师。她是“犯罪姐妹”的初始指导委员会成员。

Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916 - 2014) was born in Chicago, and worked there in advertising, as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser before she began writing crime fiction. Her novels explore psychological suspense, and she was nominated for the Edgar Award eight times. She also served as President of the Mystery Writers of America in 1956 and was declared a Grand Master by the MWA in 1985. She was on the initial steering committee of Sisters in Crime.