FEVER: A NAMELESS DETECTIVE NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 03880007B15558
English Summary/英文概要： Nameless told Mitchell Krochek that he’d do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She’d run away before – propelled by an escalating gambling fever – and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless and his partner finally find her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demands a divorce. Then, a few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbles into the agency begging to go home. No one is surprised when, soon after her homecoming, she disappears again. But gambling fever has a way of twisting things, and the blood on Mitchell and Janice Krochek’s kitchen floor is a card off the bottom of the deck. Janice is missing again, Mitchell is the prime suspect, and as Nameless searches for the truth, he uncovers a vicious racket that preys on gambling fever victims ...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 以舊金山私探為主角的無名偵探（Nameless Detective）系列，故事以第一人稱敘述，從未提過這個偵探的姓名。
這位有其個人特色的無名私探其實很平易近人，有許多缺點也會生病，例如他有心臟病卻又熱愛高熱量食物，但憑著他棄而不捨的韌性，總是能破解這些不可能的犯罪。有趣的是這個無名偵探和他的創作者一樣，狂熱地蒐集雜誌。《極度狂熱》是此系列自1971年以來的第33本作品。
Awards/获奖情况：“His novels are cerebral, not bloody. There is violence, but of a muted sort, and none of it is gratuitous… The ‘Nameless Detective’ novels are a thinking reader’s detective series.”--The Chicago Sun-Times
“There is no living writer whose work more faithfully embodies the spirit of classic private-eye fiction than Bill Pronzini’s. [It is] classy, classy noir storytelling.”--Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
“One of the greatest-ever detective series.”--Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： Bill Pronzini is the author of nearly 70 novels. He has received three Shamus Awards, two for Best Novel, the Lifetime Achievement Award (presented in 1987) from the Private Eye Writers of America, and six nominations for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award. He also has received the Grand Prix de la Littérature PoliciPre (for SNOWBOUND). He lives with his wife, mystery writer Marcia Muller, in northern California.
比爾．普羅茲尼(Bill Pronzini)在成為作家前曾從事書報攤店員、運動新聞記者、民警等多種工作，直至1969年才開始專職寫作。他是個多產且創作領域廣泛，像是黑色驚悚、密室推理、冒險故事、間諜小說、科幻和恐怖等各種題材都有涉獵。長短篇作品超過百本。她的作品總是變化多端、十分有創意常會出人意料！
曾創作了《無名偵探》系列小說，無名偵探（Nameless Detective）是他最受歡迎的系列主角，該系列最新作《極度狂熱》（Fever）即將於今年五月出版。
曾與妻子同時犯罪小說家梅西．米勒(MARCIA MULLER)合作過三本，值得一提的是本身也是藏書家的比爾與妻子梅西合力編撰的《1001 Midnights：The Aficionado’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction》是推理小說迷的最佳閱讀指南。
作者曾三次被提名愛倫坡獎 (Edgar Awards)， 最近一次提名是《陌生人的心靈荒地》(Wasteland of Strangers,1998)，曾獲二次夏姆斯獎(Shamus Award)( Hoodwink,1982與Boobytrap,1999)，現居加州。
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