出版社: HarperCollins
出版年: 2015-5-7
页数: 528
定价: GBP 20.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780008105969
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A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets.
This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on y...
A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets.
This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
Detective stories from the so-called “Golden Age” between the wars are often dismissed as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth: some explore forensic pathology and shocking serial murders, others delve into police brutality and miscarriages of justice; occasionally the innocent are hanged, or murderers get away scot-free. Their authors faced up to the Slump and the rise of Hitler during years of economic misery and political upheaval, and wrote books agonising over guilt and innocence, good and evil, and explored whether killing a fellow human being was ever justified. Though the stories included no graphic sex scenes, sexual passions of all kinds seethed just beneath the surface.
Attracting feminists, gay and lesbian writers, Socialists and Marxist sympathisers, the Detection Club authors were young, ambitious and at the cutting edge of popular culture – some had sex lives as bizarre as their mystery plots. Fascinated by real life crimes, they cracked unsolved cases and threw down challenges to Scotland Yard, using their fiction to take revenge on people who hurt them, to conduct covert relationships, and even as an outlet for homicidal fantasy. Their books anticipated not only CSI, Jack Reacher and Gone Girl, but also Lord of the Flies. The Club occupies a unique place in Britain’s cultural history, and its influence on storytelling in fiction, film and television throughout the world continues to this day.
The Golden Age of Murder rewrites the story of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them.
The Golden Age of Murder的创作者
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马丁·爱德华兹 作者
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime novelist whose Lake District Mysteries have been optioned by ITV. Elected to the Detection Club in 2008, he became the first Archivist of the Club, and is also Archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association. In addition to 17 crime novels, he has published eight non-fiction books and is a noted commentator on the genre. Renowned as the lead...
Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime novelist whose Lake District Mysteries have been optioned by ITV. Elected to the Detection Club in 2008, he became the first Archivist of the Club, and is also Archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association. In addition to 17 crime novels, he has published eight non-fiction books and is a noted commentator on the genre. Renowned as the leading expert on the history of Golden Age detective fiction, he won the Crimefest Mastermind Quiz three times, and possesses one of Britain’s finest collections of Golden Age novels, including unique inscribed books and manuscripts, notably the previously unknown handwritten study made by Dorothy L. Sayers of the case of Constance Kent and Inspector Whicher.
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Members of the Detection Club elected 1930–49
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Members of the Detection Club elected 1930–49
Author Gallery
Part One: The Unusual Suspects
The Ritual in the Dark
A Bitter Sin
Conversations about a Hanged Woman
The Mystery of the Silent Pool
A Bolshevik Soul in a Fabian Muzzle
Wearing their Criminological Spurs
The Art of Self-Tormenting
Part Two: The Rules of the Game
Setting a Good Example to the Mafia
The Fungus-Story and the Meaning of Life
Wistful Plans for Killing off Wives
The Least Likely Person
The Best Advertisement in the World
Part Three: Looking to Escape
‘Human Life’s the Cheapest Thing There Is’
Echoes of War
Murder, Transvestism and Suicide during a Trapeze Act
A Severed Head in a Fish-Bag
‘Have You Heard of Sexual Perversions?’
Clearing Up the Mess
What it Means to Be Stuck for Money
Neglecting Demosthenes in Favour of Freud
Part Four: Taking on the Police
Playing Games with Scotland Yard
Why was the Shift Put in the Boiler-Hole?
Trent’s Very Last Case
A Coffin Entombed in a Crypt of Granite
Part Five: Justifying Murder
Knives Engraved with ‘Blood and Honour’
Touching with a Fingertip the Fringe of Great Events
Collecting Murderers
No Judge or Jury but My Own Conscience
Part Six: The End Game
Playing the Grandest Game in the World
The Work of a Pestilential Creature
Frank to the Point of Indecency
Shocked by the Brethren
Part Seven: Unravelling the Mysteries
Murder Goes On Forever
Appendices
Constitution and Rules of the Detection Club
Bibliography
Index
Index of Titles
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
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3 有用 bobo 2015-06-16 06:40:26
Carr传记之后好久没看到这种令人动容的传记研究类作品了
3 有用 舒歌 2017-05-25 06:35:04
绝对是今年到目前为止看的最好的一本书,彻底地、永远地改变了我对黄金时代的认识和理解。 所以问题是我要打六星啊……/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
2 有用 翱云 2015-10-12 10:04:01
Murder Goes On Forever
1 有用 JHW160 2019-11-17 15:05:00
极限了。。。只看了三百页,传记研究类,马丁的见解实在是精彩!坐等引进。
0 有用 Ishtar 2015-07-26 06:45:20
谋杀故事背后的爱恨情仇。人性其实在哪个时代都差不多,生活在这个相对开放和平的年代是幸事。
1 有用 Iris.Moira 2022-04-19 18:59:46
围绕的是The Detection Club,聚焦里面作者的作品和当时一些真实案件和作者自身经历对作品的影响,以及作品对后续推理小说的影响。有点乱。
0 有用 幻镜止水 2021-06-01 18:26:30
补票成功,精装入手 较中文版不同的是最后额外附带了书和作家的索引,方便跳转到正文
2 有用 约克哈特 2020-07-03 06:03:46
总算完完整整地读了一遍。读到倒数第二章侦探俱乐部的成员们不少都英年早逝或晚景凄凉的时候,鼻子有点酸。塞耶斯真的太有人格魅力了,看来以后要好好读一读她的书。总而言之,是我迄今读过最好的推理研究作品,也应该会成为我的年度前三甚至最佳。可惜身在国外,没法第一时间读到中文版。希望中文版能卖得好一点吧。
0 有用 越幾斯 2020-04-10 00:37:05
生活比小说精彩。已经脑补了一部名为 Detection Club 的长篇连载英剧,上演两次世界大战之间英国侦探小说作家之间的爱(guì)恨(quān)情(zhēn)仇(luàn)。毕竟这班人多是怪咖,政治光谱左中右齐全,还有各种浅柜深柜、人妻人夫爱好者。就算是相对正常的阿加莎,也自带失忆失踪间谍梗。真拍出来会是比 The Crown 还要好看的群像剧吧。
2 有用 Will Ospreay 2020-03-26 18:33:12
难以评价,我觉得称之为黄金时代学也完全没问题。个人最感兴趣的是老爷子爆料的各类八卦,简直是把黄金时代各位大佬的底裤都给扒光了xswl。