BEFORE THE FACT (1932)

Book ID/图书代码： 12844008B20777

English Summary/英文概要： Alfred Hitchcock immortalised Lina and Johnnie in his classic movie Suspicion, starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant.
’Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them.’Swept away by an admirer’s inexhaustible charm, Lina McLaidlaw finds herself settled in a life she could never have imagined. Head of a fine household and guardian of both the morals and the finances of the man she has chosen to marry.Feckless and irresponsible, Johnnie Aysgarth may be. But despite a shaky start, she has finally got him under control After all, Lina waited until she was thirty before accepting a marriage proposal. A further eight years after that before grudgingly accepting that her husband was - perhaps still could be - a murderer.Eight years is a long time. And Johnnie still adores her. Doesn’t he. . .?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： <事实之前>是从被害者的角度来描写犯罪的一部令人惊叹不已的犯罪小说。主人公丽娜跟生性乐观，充满魅力的约翰尼结婚后不久，知道了自已原以为的“理想丈夫”是一个喜欢赌博，赛马，偷家里的东西变卖的人。不仅如此，他是一个爱撒谎，善恶不分的人，有众多的红颜知己。更甚至，约翰尼为了得到遗产，杀害了丽娜的父亲，为了还欠债，杀害了自己的朋友。但是，丽娜一直不想放弃对他的爱。她将他当做自己的孩子，自己的责任。最后，当她知道约翰尼最后要为了得到自己的遗产解决债务危机的时候，她一直等着那一刻的到来。更甚至她为他准备了足够的脱罪证据。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Francis Iles是安东尼·伯克莱的笔名，这位推理小说史上的先知。1922年，便开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

Francis Iles was the pseudonym for Anthony Berkeley Cox. The main body of his work comprises the crime novels he wrote as ‘Anthony Berkeley’, which mainly feature the amateur detective Roger Sheringham.

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