黑桃A的诅咒

by Tetsuya Ayukawa, 鲇川哲也, 汤丽珍 (Translator)

7名性格乖僻的大学生来到丁香庄度假。翌日清晨，一具陌生的尸体静卧悬崖下，死者身旁掉落了一张黑桃A扑克牌。

起初众人以为是一场意外，但当新的死者相继出现，黑桃2、黑桃3、黑桃4扑克牌也随之被发现。

喝下毒可可倒地身亡的同伴、遭削笔刀刺穿脑袋的男子、深夜被人从背后勒死的管理员………受害者不断增多，死法各异，唯一相同的，是尸体旁那一张张象征死亡的黑桃扑克牌！

猜忌与恐惧在庄园中不断蔓延，当悠闲的假日成为邪恶凶手的杀戮盛宴，7人究竟谁能生还？

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1992

About the author

Tetsuya Ayukawa (鮎川 哲也 Ayukawa Tetsuya) was the pen name of a Japanese literary critic and novelist. His real name was Toru Nakagawa. He is noted for his Detective Onitsura Series of mystery stories.

Reviews

[Mizuki]

Murder At the Cloves Villa by Tetsuya Ayukawa, is a solidly written locked-room murder mystery and is considered by many as a classic.

It is the second time I read this book, the main story is about seven art students spending their summer break at the Cloves Villa (or the Lilac Villa), the students might not be as friendly with each other as they first appear to be. Then out of the blue, a local resident is murdered by an unknown killer, then more students are killed one by one. Who is the killer, and why would he/she kill those students and the local residents, when seemingly there is no connection among them?

I really appreciate the final plot twists and the explanation of the killer's motives (you just won't believe why he/she did that!), still the characters are so flat, and the atmosphere of mystery and dread isn't all that great neither. So, 4 stars only.

[Shea Chen]

被豆瓣6.4的评分吓到了，心想经典之作的评分怎么会如此之低。读毕后才发现我的担心就是多余的，很好看的一本本格。自己很喜欢的一部岛田作品里面的核心诡计，竟然都是致敬的这部作品里多个诡计中的其中一个，我还以为是岛田自创的呢。扯会话题，这本书中不管是长篇还是短篇都不错，但长篇略胜一筹。鲇川哲也的推理还真的是不错，打算以后多读几本他的推理！
p.s.好几年不用豆瓣了，看来是对的。

[Joseph Chung]

情節推演欠精彩，但詭計和點子很多，有些精彩，有些太難置信（例如兇手為何能在被害者的可可中下毒），導致整體成績只達良好水平，有點可惜——不是鮎川哲也最好的作品，「死亡的風景」好多了。