One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.
Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.
Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.
Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.
##和喜鵲謀殺案類似,這本 the word is murder也是現實和小說結閤之作,不同的是前者是作中作,這部是作者把自己本人寫入小說,和偵探一起破案。除瞭謀殺是虛構的,裏麵有大量真實的人物。包括作者本人的生活,作為作傢和編劇的的創作掙紮,還有和經紀人、好萊塢大佬們的互動,連斯皮爾伯格和彼得傑剋遜都入鏡瞭,最牛逼的是把國土安全的男星直接拿進來換個姓,當成謀殺案受害者被砍死瞭????。當然,破案部分還是很精彩的,隻不過由於體裁,顯然不再適閤波洛式的,所以變成瞭福爾摩斯和華生式的。最核心的詭計方麵,有一定推理小說閱讀量的讀者應該不難猜齣七七八八,至少紅鯡魚那部分很好猜。總之,精彩程度略遜於喜鵲謀殺案,但比月亮花謀殺案要好。
評分##Anthony Horowitz講故事真的很厲害,總是開篇幾句話就牢牢抓住你(我十幾歲開始讀Alex Rider係列的時候就是這個感覺)。朗讀者音色很好,但是人物和人物之間的區分不是很明顯,其實作者非常喜歡細細地寫人物的口音與聲綫,類似選角指示?
評分作者這種吐槽編劇日常順帶偵破謀殺案的敘事手法我好喜歡。尤其有很多熟悉的英劇人名和影視八卦,超級有趣。 謀殺的詭計很妙,和作者一樣跟著偵探全程參與,但確實沒有猜到。 大結局的偵探先生和作者也太可愛瞭吧,偵探先生一句道歉就搞定作者,然後又惹怒。。 哈哈哈很是期待續集。
評分##3.5星 因為現代偵探小說難寫而鼓勵0.5星。和喜鵲類似,作者仍采用瞭兩個故事相扣的設計,可惜的是第一個故事和最後的謀殺案相差太遠。不過第一個故事(車禍謎團)更有趣,頗有阿婆的小說韻味。
評分##Books ???? are the greatest distractions.
評分##Typical British mystery with reference of drama, theatre and, of course, Hamlet. A very grumpy Holmes and a less amicable Watson plus a nice little plot on the platter, including enough red herrings.
評分###2020ReadingChallenge01AmateurDetective 核心詭計平淡瞭一點但整本書有種whimsical的機智。希望寫成係列啊,新時代的watson和sherlock。
評分##故事不錯,就是這種breaking the forth wall的寫法有點煩人
評分作者這種吐槽編劇日常順帶偵破謀殺案的敘事手法我好喜歡。尤其有很多熟悉的英劇人名和影視八卦,超級有趣。 謀殺的詭計很妙,和作者一樣跟著偵探全程參與,但確實沒有猜到。 大結局的偵探先生和作者也太可愛瞭吧,偵探先生一句道歉就搞定作者,然後又惹怒。。 哈哈哈很是期待續集。
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