卡作品风格（转载）

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Machiel Kolstein wrote:

Hi,
I just found this newsgroup today, so perhaps I am saying something
which is been dealt with already. Apologizes.


我今天才，所以或我在的已有人了，如
果是那很抱歉。


Since I was 13, I loved reading mysteries.
I started with the inevitable Agatha Christie and then
moved on to others. However, since there are so many
different writers, most of the time after reading one
or two unsatisfactory mysteries of a particular writer
I gave up on him/her and looked for another.

我十三起，我上了推理小，我很自然地始克莉蒂，然
後有其他人的作品。然而，大部份的情下，如果在我某作家的
一本，得不足的，我就放看，再找其他作家。


This way I might have been unfair, since even the best
among them have written some lousy ones.
For instance, I didn't like Chesterton, Sayers or Marsh,
to name a few.

我想方式可能不太公平，因即使最好的推理小家，也可能
一些差的。譬如，我不喜斯，，是代表性的
作家名字。


I got completely hooked, however, on the works of
John Dickson Carr. He wrote a few bad ones for sure,
but most have a high level, and some are the most
clever plots I have ever read ("The Hollow Man",
"He Who Whispers", "Deathwatch").

我我已翰．狄克森．卡的作品上了。然他了一些不
好看的，但大部份的水都很高，有些甚至是我最明的局。（《
The Hollow Man》、《He Who Whispers 》、《Deathwatch》）


So my question is: does anyone know other writers
similar to Dickson Carr?

所以我的是：有知道其他似狄克森．卡的作家？


What I like about his books:
1. Locked Room Mysteries (i.e. "Impossible
Murders")
2. The huge amount of clues and the way it
all finally fits in a plot.
(Of course, most of these clues
don't seem to be clues before they
get explained)

我喜他的的原因有：

一、密室推理（也就是，不可能的犯罪）
二、大量的索在最後合情合理地解一局。
（然，大部份的索在有解以前，是看不出的）


3. The alternative plots given (which are
all sounding plausible but are
immediately disagreed with by the
brilliant detective)
(In some of his books this happens even
twice, first the police will come up with
some explanation, later on another guy will
and then finally "The Master" himself will
explain what really happened)
4. The eccentric, cryptic, hilarious
behaviour of the detective which only in the
end makes sense when he shows his genius.

三、重倒的（指的是看起似乎有道理的解，被卓越的
智慧一推翻，在他的面甚至出次，第一次是警方找到了一
解，然後出了另一人的解，最後由主角完整地明真相）
四、探的行古怪、神秘、胡，但其是了在局示他人
的智慧。


The only other name I can think of is Ellery Queen; I
tried lots of his books, but somehow they never really
convinced me. Although he claims to play fair, I found
that mostly there was something missing which the reader
doesn't know and the writer does. Also I don't like his
detectives very much.

另外一我可以想到的名字是艾勒里．昆恩；我他好多，但有
些在以服我。然他宣公平，但我有多情形是只有作
者知道但者不知道的索。所以我也不是很喜他的。


Slightly related to this, am I correct that Carr is
hardly well-known/popular, even among mystery-fans? I searched
on the www for some information/reviews about him
and couldn't find any (found lots about others).
I already said that this is the first time I read this
newsgroup so perhaps I am wrong, but at least today
I didn't find anyone talking about him.
Any reason? I'd be interested to find out why
people might not like his books whereas they do
like others.


Peter Bennett wrote:

For a work very much in the style of Carr, try Hake Talbot, The Rim
of the Pit. You would also enjoy Douglas Greene's recent biography John
Dickson Carr : the Man Who explained Miracles.


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情小男孩 撰於文章 ＜3P5d50$VX8@bbs.EE.NCTU.edu.tw＞...

翰．狄克森．卡（John Dickson Carr ）不熟,
但最近在看高木彬光的得知,
卡被日本人封密室的巨匠,
高木早期在撰他的成名作[刺青人事件],
[能面人事件]和[妖之宿],有向卡挑之意,
都以密室主要推理求.至於功力高下,
因看卡的作品,不敢妄言,
想是卡技高一吧
或有人可以提供更切的比.



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作者: windmail () 看板: Mystery
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: Wed Jun 17 00:15:09 1998

※ 引述《"Jennifer" ＜editor@email.fmp.com.tw＞》之言：
: 情小男孩 撰於文章 ＜3P5d50$VX8@bbs.EE.NCTU.edu.tw＞...
: 翰．狄克森．卡（John Dickson Carr ）不熟,
: 但最近在看高木彬光的得知,
: 卡被日本人封密室的巨匠,
: 高木早期在撰他的成名作[刺青人事件],
: [能面人事件]和[妖之宿],有向卡挑之意,
: 都以密室主要推理求.至於功力高下,
: 因看卡的作品,不敢妄言,
: 想是卡技高一吧
: 或有人可以提供更切的比.


可能大部份的推理作家都以密室材的作品，而且得好的很可
能不止一、部，但根 Douglas G. Greene（翰．狄克森．卡的作
者）所言，卡能推出超「五十」入及出「密室」的方法，每一
都不重覆，而且也不和有的作品雷同；此外卡能造出各式各的
「密室」（泛指犯罪非完全密，但被雪或沙所，地面
有印，如《》就是典例），我想就是其他作家所法匹
之了。




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