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can test... - 大米:
两本内田康夫和一本松本...
推理小說裡最難寫好的恐怕是密室推理。 好的密室推理就有如一場賞心悦目的魔術秀, 觀眾明明知道這不是真的, 但偏偏看起來就有如真的一般!
雖然有不少作家去寫密室推理小說, 但奇怪的是市面上的密室推理短篇合輯不多, 大概只有五六本而已!
在我開始買這些書來看時, 遇到了一個相當頭痛的問題! 要知道這種書通常只能上網買, 如果的介紹的不詳細的話, 那我們無法知道裡面到底收集了甚麼故事, 有沒有跟另外一本重覆? 通常這種書大多數已經絶版了, 如果你有幸找到的話, 價錢也會很貴。 總不成你花大筆金錢之後, 才發現很多故事你已經看過了?
所以在下面我會詳細的介紹我所能找的密室推理短篇, 告訴你裡面有甚麼故事和價錢等。
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Rooms - Edited by Mike Ashley
這本書在市面還能找得到, 價錢應該是馬幣四十至五十左右,編輯者為 Mike Ashley 。
此君向來的選集一向來水準都很高, 他的選集有一個特色, 通常在每一個故事前, 他都會大約介紹一些作者。
我個人相當推薦這本書 , 在書後, Mike Ashley 寫了一篇關於不可能犯罪的歷史, 他更準備了一份書單, 實在吸引人! 而且這選集並不只是收錄舊的作品, 他更邀現代的推理作家為此選集寫新的故事。
台灣有翻譯這本書, 分為兩本書出版,書名《密室.墓園.死亡電梯》(一個相當爛的譯名!!)。
幾年後, Mike Ashley 更出了一本續集, 那就是下面所要介紹的 Mammoth Book Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries。 下面列出了此書所收錄的短篇, 雙星者為別的書也有收錄!
Martin Edwards Waiting for Godstow
Kate Ellis The Odour of Sanctity
Margaret Frazer A Traveller's Tale
John Dickson Carr The Silver Curtain
Michael Kurland The Stolen Saint Simon
Edward D. Hoch The Problem of the Crowded Cemetry
Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg Death Rides the Elevator
Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke
Michael Collins No Way Out
Clayton Rawson Off The Face of the Earth ** (也收錄於 Death Locked in)
Amy Myers Murder Strips Off
Thomas Bailey Alrdich Out of His Head ** (也收錄於 Death Locked in)
Melville Davisson Post The Doomdorf Mystery ** (也收錄於 The Locked Room Reader)
C.N. & A.M. Williamson The Adventure of Jacobean House
Jacques Futrelle The Motor Boat
Peter Tremayne Murder in the Air
Bill Pronzini The Pulp Connection
Marilyn Todd Stag Night
William Brittain Mr. Stang Accepts a Challenge
H.R.F. Keating The Legs That Walked
Peter T. Garratt The Next Big Thing
Richard A. Lupoff The Scond Drug
Susanna Gregory Ice Elation
Howel Evans The Mystery of Taxi-Cab
Frank M. Robinson Heart Stopper
Edward Martson Blind Eyes
Peter Lovesey The Armorous Corpse
Mammoth Book Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries - Edited by Mike Ashley
這本書相當新, 二零零七年出版, 市面上還能找得到, 但沒有中譯本, 價錢大概為五十元左右。 
下面列出了此書所收錄的短篇, 雙星者為別的書也有收錄!
William F. Smith An Almost Perfect Crime
Joseph Commings The X Street Murders ** (也收錄於 Death Locked in)
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer Locked in Death
Gillian Linscott Wingless Pegasus
Vincent Cornier Duel of Shadows
Peter Crowther The 45 Steps
Douglas Newton Contrary to Evidence
William Brittain The Impossible Footprint
Laird Long Three Blind Rats
John Basye Price Death and the Rope
Edward D. Hoch The Problem of Black Coister
Edward D. Hoch The Shower of Daggers
Robert Randisi The Hook
Max Rittenberg The Mystery of the Sevenoaks
William Le Queux The Red Ring
Will Murray Obseravable Justice
J. A. Konrath On the Rocks
H. Edward Hunsburger Eternally Yours
Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg Murder in Monkeyland
Arthur Porges No Killer Has Wings
Richard A. Lupoff Benning's School for Boys
C. Daly King The Episode of the Nail and the Renquiem
William Krohn The Impossible Murder of Dr Satanus
Peter Tremayne The Stuart Sapphire
Peter Godfrey The Flung-Back Lid
Forrest Rosaire The Poisoned Bowl
Bill Pronzini Proof of Guilt
Barry Longyear Slaugtherhouse
Bernard Knight The Birdman of Tonypandy
Locked Room Puzzle - - Edited by Bill Pronzini
這一本所收集只有四個故事,但全是中篇! 雖然己經絶版了, 但應該不太難找。 
John Dickson Carr The Third Bullet
Bill Pronzini Booktaker
Clayton Rawson From Another World ** (也收錄於 All But Impossible!)
Edward D. Hoch Day of the Wizard
Death Locked in - Edited by Douglas Greene and Robert Adey

這本是重量級的選集, 原因是兩位編輯是大有名氣的人。 Douglas Greene 是 John Dickson Carr 傳記的作者, Robert Adey 是所謂的密室專家, 他所編的那本 Locked Room Murders 被譽為不可能犯罪小說的聖經, 擁有齊所有不可能犯罪小說的資料, 從世界上的第一部推理小說開始到一九七一年為止。
Lilian De La Torre The First Locked Room
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
Ngaio Marsh I Can Find My Way Out
L. Frank Baum The Suicide of Kiaros
Fredric Brown The Spherical Ghoul
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Out of His Head ** (也收錄於 The Mammoth Book of Locked-Rooms)
M. McDonnell Bodkin Murder by Proxy
Peter Godfrey Out of This World
M.M.B. The Mystery of Hotel de L'Orme
Edward D. Hoch The Magic Bullet
Wilkie Collins A Terribly Strange Bed
Cornell Woolrich The Room with Something Wrong
John Dickson Carr Invisible Hands
Joseph Commings The X Street Murders ** (也收錄於 Mammoth Book Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries)
Nicholas Carter The Mystery of Room No. 11
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace The Man Who Disappeared
G. K. Chesterton The Invisible Man
Ellery Queen The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds
Arthur Conan Doyle The Mystery of the Lost Special
Clayton Rawson Off the Face of the Earth ** (也收錄於 The Mammoth Book of Locked-Rooms)
May Futrelle The Grinning God
Jacques Futrelle The House That Was
Bill Pronzini Thin Air
Anthony Boucher Elsewhere
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries - Edited by Issac Asimov

這一本是由機器人之父, 以撒阿西莫夫 (Issac Asimov)的選集! 很多人知道他是專門寫科學小說, 但其實他也是一名推理狂, 曾出版了幾本推小說。 這本應該不難找, 我買時的價錢是馬幣十六元!
Edgar Alan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Jacques Futrelle The Problem of Cell 13
MacKinlay Kantor The Light at Three o'clock
Cornell Woolrich Murder at the Automat
Erle Stanley Gardner The Exact Opposite
Barry Perowne The Blind Spot
Robert Arthur The 51st Sealed Room
William March The Bird House
Jack Wodhams Big Time Operator
Edward D. Hoch The Leopard Locked Room
Bill Pronzini & Michael Kurland Vanishing Act
Murder Impossible - Edited by Jack Adrian and Robert Adey

這本再度由 Robert Adey 和 另一位叫著 Jack Adrian 的人主編!我沒聽過 Jack Adrian 這個人, 不清楚他是誰! 這一本特别的地方是在於他收錄了兩篇很少見到的短篇, 那就是 HakeTalbot 的The Other Side 和 Joel Townsley Rogers 的 The Hanging Rope 。 我買這本是馬幣三十元, 現在應該是很難找!
John Dickson Carr The House in Goblin Wood
Hake Talbot The Other Side
Vincent Cornier The Courtyard of the Fly
Arthur Porges Coffee Break
W. Hope Hodgson Bullion!
Bill Pronzini Proof of Guilt
Jacques Futrelle An Absence of Air
John F. Suter The Impossible Theft ** (也收錄於 All But Impossible!)
John Lutz It's a Dog's Life
Sax Romer The Death of Cyrus Pettigrew
Joseph Commings Ghost in the Gallery
Edgar Wallace The Missing Romney
Gerald Findler The House of Screams
Edward D. Hoch The Impossible Murder
George Locke A Nineteenth Centiry Debacle
John Dickson Carr A Razor in Fleet Street
Leonard Pruyn Dinner at Garibaldi's
Joel Townsley Rogers The Hanging Rope
Jeffrey Wallmann Now You See Her
Barry Perowne The Blind Spot
Alex Atkinson Chapter The Last: Merriman Explains
All But Impossible! - Edit by Edward D. Hoch

這一本由短篇之王, Edward D. Hock 親自操刀主選的短篇集。 這本最特別的地方是他力邀一班推理小說家和評論專家攪了一個最佳不可能犯罪小說的投票, 結果就收錄書前的介紹裡。這本在網上會比較難找, 我買的價錢不貴, 但可能是我所有的書最珍貴的一本! 書寄到我的手時, 很意外的我發覺裡面
竟然有三個作家的簽名 : Edward D. Hoch, Peter Gofrey 和William Britian.
所有的簽名都是給一個叫著 Jane 的女性。 我不知道這位 Jane 是誰, 但她能同時拿到三位的簽名, 真的是異常珍貴!
突然想到一句形容她的話 : 密室姑娘假珍經 (完全是一句毫無意思的癈話)
John Dickson Carr The Shadow of the Goat
Georges Simenon The Little House at Croix-Rouse
James Yaffe The Problem of the Emperor's Mushroom
Clayton Rawson From Another World
Helen McCloy Through a Glass, Darkly
Ellery Queen The Snowball in July
Peter Godfrey The Newtonian Egg
Lilian De La Torre The Triple-Lock'd Room
Issac Asimov The Brazan Lokced Room
Poul Anderson The Martian Crown Jewels
Hugh Pentecost The Day the Children Vanished
Julian Symons As If By Magic
John f. Suter The Impossible Theft ** (也收錄於 Murder Impossible)
William Brittain Mr. Strang Takes a Filed Trip
Micheal Collins No One Likes to Be Played for a Sucker
Bill Pronzini The Arrowmont Prison Riddle
Jack Ritchie Box in a Box
John L. Breen The Number 12 Jinx
J. F. Pierce The Magician's Wife
Edward D. Hoch The Problem of the Covered Bridge
The Locked Room Reader - Edited by Hans S. Santesson

Hans S. Santesson 是一個很陌生的名字, 只知道他好像是一位瑞典的推理論家! 這本在網上應該還可以找得到, 價錢也應該不會太貴, 我買時是馬幣二十二元!
John Dickson Carr The Locked Room
Ellery Queen The Dauphin's Doll
Clayton Rawson Nothing is Impossible
Craig Rice His Heart Could Break
G. K. Chesterton The Oracle of the Dog
Morris Hershman When a Fellon Needs a Friend
Melville Davisson Post The Doomdorf Mystery ** (也收錄於 The Mammoth Book of Locked-Rooms)
Israel Zangwill The Big Bow Mystery
William Brittain The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr
Edward D. Hoch The Long Way Down
Miriam Allen deFord Time Trammel
Lawrence G. Blochman Reprieve
Anthony Boucher The Smoked Filled Locked Room
Joseph Commings Bones for Davy Jones
Thomas Flanagan The Fine Italian Hand
Henry Kane The Narrowing Lust




