优秀的侦探小说实在是太多了,小编在这里介绍有限。其实,我们中国自己的狄仁杰、包青天也是很经典的侦探形象。大家可以对比一下东西方侦探之间的区别,总有一款是你喜欢的哈。快来和侦探一起开启惊险又刺激的探案之旅吧。还有哪些是你钟爱的侦探系列小说呢?
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《东方快车谋杀案》
阿加莎.克里斯蒂
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
子夜之后,声名远播的东方快车因大雪阻挠停在了轨道上。清晨,百万富翁Samuel Ratchett被捅了十二次,死在了他的包厢里面,而包厢的门是从里面反锁的。因此,车上的同行者中一定有凶手存在。
Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...
被暴风雪阻隔,凶手就在周围,这种情况下,大侦探赫尔克里·波洛一定要在死者的十二个仇人之中找到凶手。不然,凶手可能会决定再次行凶……
迄今为止,《东方快车谋杀案》已被多次改编为电影。最近,由福克斯电影公司制作的最新版本也已上映,由此可见这部作品的巨大魔力。
原著语言虽简单,伏笔和悬念的设置却都很到位,里面的对话部分更是精彩绝伦。当然,大家一定要做好记人名和房间号的心理准备,不然很可能会搞不清一些细节。
如果你尚未读过阿婆的作品,那这本书将是一个不错的开始。书的结尾更是发人深思,到底什么是正义?我们在正义面前又该怎样做出选择呢?相信大家在读后也会得出自己的答案。
当然,大家也可以对比一下原著与多个电影版本之间的区别。影片为了观影效果往往会加入一些更加容易引起观众共鸣的情节,大家可以判断电影中对哪些情节进行了改编,并对不同版本进行比较。这难道不是一件很有意思的事情吗?
不管怎样,大家一定不要忽略阅读侦探小说时的推理过程,不然一味的浏览情节会少获得很多乐趣。还等什么,快跟随目光敏锐、智商超群的大侦探波罗登上东方快车吧。
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《寓所谜案》
阿加莎·克里斯蒂
The Murder At The Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage.
阿婆笔下时刻保持冷静、广受喜爱的女侦探简·马普尔小姐就是在《寓所谜案》中首次亮相的。马普尔小姐总是能发现人性中的阴暗面,带着这个天赋,她开始着手她的第一桩案子,犯罪现场在一个寓所之中。
Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead.
死者是镇上的所有人都不喜欢的地方长官普罗瑟罗上校。他的头部被击中了。没有人听见任何异常的响声。至此,案件仿佛毫无线索。但寓所旁的每个人似乎都有动机杀死普罗瑟罗上校。
It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police.
马普尔小姐正在和时间赛跑,在不依靠地方警察的帮助下,她需要尽快从神秘杀手留下的蛛丝马迹中理清案情。
这部作品同样出自阿婆之手。阿婆笔下的波罗和马普尔小姐都有什么相同点和不同点呢?阿婆在塑造男性侦探和女性侦探形象上是否会使用不同的手法呢?我们不妨试着对比一番,毕竟一个侦探小说家能塑造出两个家喻户晓的侦探角色还是很少见的。
同大侦探波罗一样,马普尔小姐也多次在银幕上现身。马普尔小姐身上带有浓重的英伦范儿,和她一起探案的时候还可以顺便感受一番英伦气息呢。
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《福尔摩斯探案集》
阿瑟·柯南·道尔
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published. This volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
《福尔摩斯探案集》由一个个的小故事组成,让其首次刊登的《海滨杂志》获得了许多利益。该探案集让福尔摩斯和华生更加受欢迎。
Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle. Complete in nine handsome volumes, no home library is complete without it.
在大多数的著名案件中,福尔摩斯都处在他能力的巅峰时期。这些案件包括红发联盟、斑点带子案和蓝色宝石。《福尔摩斯探案集》由十分精彩的九卷内容组成,是每个家庭书柜里都必不可少的系列读物。
福尔摩斯大概是很多人的童年记忆,也可能是小孩子眼中的世界经典名著里最有趣的一本了。福尔摩斯并不知道所有学科的知识,但这并不能妨碍他凭借敏锐的观察和精确的推理查明真相。
福尔摩斯和华生这对搭档经常以各种形式登上银幕。不管是英剧《神探夏洛克》(Sherlock)更加现代化的改编,还是美剧《基本演绎法》(Elementary )风格不同的展现,福尔摩斯貌似一直都在我们身边,等我们和他一起去感受探案的魅力。
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《莫格街凶杀案》
埃德加·爱伦·坡
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
1841年,埃德加·爱伦·坡的短篇小说《莫格街凶杀案》在《格拉汉姆杂志》上发表。这被公认为是世界第一部侦探小说。爱伦·坡将这部作品看做是他的“推理故事”之一。
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
C. Auguste Dupin侦探在巴黎解决了关于两名女性的残忍而神秘的凶杀案。许多证人都说自己听到了嫌疑人讲话,可是他们都不能对嫌疑人使用的语言达成一致。在犯罪现场,Dupin发现了一根看起来似乎不属于人类的毛发。
As the first true detective in fiction, the Dupin character established many literary devices which would be used in future fictional detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
Dupin这个角色是小说历史中出现的第一个真正意义上的侦探。许多描写Dupin的文学手法都在此后虚构的侦探角色上使用,包括福尔摩斯和波罗在内。
此后出现的许多角色都仿照爱伦·坡的模式呈现,比如侦探往往聪明绝顶,他的朋友又往往会担当叙事人的角色。和文学作品中的首位侦探一同探案的机会来了。你忍心错过吗?
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《时间的女儿》
约瑟芬·铁伊
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown?
伦敦警察厅探长Alan Grant被一张英王理查三世的画像吸引了。这样一张善解人意的面孔真的属于一个十恶不赦的恶棍—为了当上国王杀死兄弟孩子的人吗?
Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.
Alan Grant想要知道理查三世究竟是怎样的人,到底又是谁杀害了塔中的小王子们。
在莎士比亚的笔下,理查三世是一个暴君。他为了自己的利益可以说是无恶不作。那么历史的真相又是怎样的呢?
《时间的女儿》似乎就在尝试回答这个问题。尽管小说不能和历史划等号,但是小说中的一些观点却能带给我们很大的启发。
此外,这本书的写作风格极为严谨,大有一举推翻四百年历史定论的魄力。Alan Grant将会怎样解决这桩发生在四百年前的悬案呢?让我们一起跟随他在书中寻觅历史的真相吧。
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《长眠不醒》
雷蒙德·钱德勒
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual. Marlowe subsequently appeared in a series of extremely popular novels.
《长眠不醒》奠定了雷蒙德·钱德勒在冷硬派侦探小说中的大师地位。他清晰且略带文学气息的写作风格赢得了大量读者的青睐。不管是普通人,还是思想复杂的知识分子都很喜欢他的作品。 该书主人公侦探马洛随后出现在一系列极为流行的小说之中。
Selected as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels, with the following review: "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be."
《长眠不醒》被《时代周刊》评选为一百部永恒的小说( All-Time 100 Novels)之一。《时代周刊》是这样评价这本书的:“我干净利落, 脸刮得干干净净,十分清醒。至于有谁能够知道这一点,那不关我的事。我就是一个衣冠整洁的私家侦探应有的样子。”
This sentence, from the first paragraph of The Big Sleep, marks the last time you can be fully confident that you know what's going on.
《长眠不醒》的第一段中出现了上面这句话。这句话意味着这将是你最后一次完全相信自己知道发生了什么的时候了。”
雷蒙德·钱德勒是美国作家,其所开创的美国本土风格更被称为是推理史上的“美国革命”。
想知道英国侦探和美国侦探有什么不同吗?那就来和这位衣冠整洁的侦探同行吧。
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《嫌疑人X的献身》
东野圭吾
The Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor.
花冈靖子是一位离异的单身母亲。她本以为自己总算是摆脱了暴力的前夫富樫慎二。但当有一天,富樫慎二找她去索要钱财,还威胁她和她年幼的女儿花岗美里的生命时,形势立刻上升到暴力层面。最后,富樫慎二躺在公寓地板上死去了。
Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step.
花冈靖子的邻居石神哲哉在听到一阵混乱的声音之后,向其伸出了援手。石神哲哉是一名中年的高中数学老师,他不仅处理了尸体,还设计了一环扣一环的障眼法。
When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong.
当富樫慎二的尸体被发现并确认身份之后,侦探草薙俊平接案。花冈靖子受到了怀疑。侦探无法在花冈靖子精心策划的不在场证明中找到任何漏洞。此外,他并不知道问题出在了哪里。
Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami.
于是,他找来了物理学家汤川学博士。汤川学经常和警察打交道,警察们给他起了“伽利略教授”的绰号。汤川学和石神哲哉曾在同一所大学念书。
After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder.What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.
两人再次会面后,汤川学认为石神哲哉与这场谋杀有关。接下来就是一场高水平的烧脑战争。石神哲哉不断地通过策略战胜汤川学,以保护花冈靖子。直到此时。汤川学才算是找到了最聪明、最坚定的对手。
东野圭吾是日本当代的推理小说作家,为我们带来了一系列脍炙人口的推理作品。这部作品出版于日本“失去的十年”期间。当时,女性意识不断强化。
东野圭吾的作品在一定程度上也折射了女性犯罪与男权社会之间的关系。好的作品往往能反映时代的特征。我们在读过这本书后也可以思考一下为什么作者会在当时写出这样的作品。
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《俗丽之夜》
多丽斯·赛耶斯
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L.Sayers
The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, is considered to be one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing protagonists.
多丽斯·赛耶斯被看作是黄金时代的最成功的侦探小说家之一。她笔下风度翩翩的彼特·温西爵爷也被公认为推理小说中最为影响深远、令人喜爱的主角之一。
Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers's work, praising her "great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail."
露丝·蓝黛儿,这名广受好评的作者曾经这样表达她对多丽斯·赛耶斯的作品喜爱:“非凡的想象力、创造力与聪明才智,以及对于细节之处独具慧眼。”
The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet's alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.
《俗丽之夜》是多丽斯·赛耶斯的第三部经典作品,描写了推理作家哈里雅特的故事。在这部作品中,哈里雅特和彼特·温西爵爷来到牛津大学。牛津大学是哈里雅特的母校,他们要参加校友聚会。但是,他们却发现自己成了噩梦般神秘谋杀的威胁目标。
多丽斯·赛耶斯的作品带有现代主流小说的特点,使得推理文学摆脱了纯粹是解谜过关的形式。此外,哈里雅特和彼特·温西爵爷也是在这部作品中“有情人终成眷属”的。
我们通常看到的都是侦探调查别人被杀的案子。这次,侦探反而成了受到威胁的谋杀对象。我们不妨跟哈里雅特和彼特·温西爵爷一起参加这场不同寻常的校友聚会吧。
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《玫瑰的名字》
安伯托·埃柯
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.
1327年,阔绰的意大利修道院中的圣方济各会的修女被怀疑信仰异端邪说。博学多闻的圣方济格教士Brother William前往进行调查。
When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon.
当他此次艰难的任务突然被几宗奇异的死亡事件笼罩的时候,他立刻变身为一名侦探,拥有亚里士多德式的逻辑,阿奎那的神学观点和罗吉尔·培根那样的洞察力。
He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey.
他收集证据、破解神秘符号与加密文本的含义,并发现了修道院神秘的迷宫。
这本书不仅会让你享受推理的乐趣,还能带你了解关于宗教、神学、政治学、历史学、犯罪学等方面的知识。和一名带有宗教色彩的侦探一起探案会有什么特别之处吗?快来书中一探究竟吧。
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《布朗神父探案集》
G.·K·切斯特顿
The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton.
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil.
G.·K·切斯特顿将布朗神父刻画为一个又矮又胖的天主教牧师,衣着随意,手里经常提着一把大伞。他总是能洞察到人性中邪恶的部分。
Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories. The Innocence of Father Brown was the first collection of them, and it's a great lot of fun.
G.·K·切斯特顿很喜欢布朗神父这个角色,刊登这一系列故事的杂志也很喜欢这部小说。《布朗神父探案集》是关于布朗神父的第一本故事集,书中乐趣横生。
布朗神父也许是看起来最不像是一个侦探的侦探了。外表憨厚可爱的他实际上大智若愚,总能解决掉各种棘手的案件。
和其他侦探一样,布朗神父也是荧幕上的常客了。小U第一次发现布朗神父就是通过英剧《布朗神父》(Father Brown)。布朗神父兼具英伦范和牧师的风格,快来和布朗神父一起解开一宗宗谜案吧。