DEATH AT THE BAR

Book ID/图书代码： 00200007B11876

English Summary/英文概要： A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences. At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in the tap-room. They are in the habit of playing darts, but on this occasion an experiment takes the place of the usual game -- a fatal experiment which calls for investigation. A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare, and a Devonshire farmer all play their parts in the unravelling of the problem...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这起案件发生在一家酒吧的宁静夜晚,一个喝醉的律师被一支看似无害的酒吧内投掷的飞镖刺穿。但这位倒霉悲催的律师不仅失了一场简单的酒吧的飞镖游戏,他还把自己的小命给丢了。在调查这起所谓称为事故案件时,侦探罗德里克•艾林这家酒吧看似无伤大雅的飞镖游戏规则产生了怀疑,并开始着手探究这其中的谋杀动机。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 奈欧•马许1895年生於新西兰，就读坎特伯里大学艺术学院，学习绘画多年。曾从事绘画及剧团工作；并曾至英国与人合夥室内装潢事业，搭船赴英途中亦为家乡的报社撰稿。二次大战爆发前回新西兰照顾病危的母亲，大战期间则为新西兰的红十字会运输部工作。1941年起在坎特伯里大学戏剧系指导学生演戏，展开了数十年的长期合作。此后，她就带领学生在澳大利亚与新西兰巡回演出并写作推理小说，馀生於新西兰与英国度过。她常利用海上航行的机会来观察海上旅客与构思情节。
奈欧•马许一共写了32本推理小说，她的侦探小说既正统又优美，数量也很丰富，主角皆为苏格兰警场警探洛德里克•艾伦，第一本推理小说《A Man Lay Dead》写於1932年（1934年出版），开启了她的推理小说生涯，让她扬名世界，与多萝西•塞耶斯、阿加莎•克里斯蒂以及玛格丽•艾林翰并称1930年代的「谋杀之后」。尽管马许自称走上创作推理小说之路是无心插柳，也说过戏剧才是她的最爱，写推理小说只为糊口，然而无庸置疑的是绘画、戏剧以及写作在她的人生皆占有举足轻重的地位，三者之间也互蒙其利。在她的推理小说中即常出现关於绘画、画家、舞台以及演员的角色或场景。马许对剧场的热情终身不减，她在二次大战後返回故乡新西兰，出钱出力创办剧团，为新西兰与澳洲的剧运奉献不懈，并且往返英伦纽澳之间，推动两地戏剧交流。正是这麼一位对戏剧投入甚深的作者，在她创作推理小说时，她不能满足於仅只做一位推理情节的泡制者，她别有更高雅的艺术倾向与修养，这使得她的小说不仅能用来解谜伤脑筋，经过半个六十年仍然屹立不摇，其中的气质文体都能令人著迷。很多论者相信，她的文学成就超过克里斯蒂……但有趣的是，马许自己似乎从未珍惜自己在推理小说的历史地位，她一直只把推理小说创作看做是认真诚实的糊口生涯。在她晚年出版的自传裏，她对自己的长达半个世纪的推理小说创作，没有过多的评述。
奈欧•马许因她在戏剧方面的贡献，分别在一九四八年以及一九六六年受封第四级大英帝国勋爵士以及第二级大英帝国女勋爵士爵位。一九七七年获美国推理作家协会大师奖（Grand Master）。

Dame Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900, but she was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Of all the "Great Ladies" of the English mystery’s golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. Over a fifty-year span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic English detective novels, which gained international acclaim. She did not always see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter. Marsh’s first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work. Throughout the 1930s Marsh painted occasionally, wrote plays for local repertory societies in New Zealand, and published detective novels. In 1937 Marsh went to England for a period. Before going back to her home country, she spent six months travelling about Europe. All her novels feature British CID detective Roderick Alleyn. Several novels feature Marsh’s other loves, the theatre and painting. A number are set around theatrical productions (Enter a Murderer, Vintage Murder, Overture to Death, Opening Night, Death at the Dolphin, and Light Thickens), and two others are about actors off stage (Final Curtain and False Scent). Her short story "’I Can Find My Way Out" is also set around a theatrical production and is the earlier "Jupiter case" referred to in Opening Night. Alleyn marries a painter, Agatha Troy, whom he meets during an investigation (Artists in Crime), and who features in several later novels.

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