DEATH ON A LONGSHIP

Book ID/图书代码： 12691012B54246

English Summary/英文概要： DI GAVIN MACRAE from Inverness is sent up to investigate. He is both attracted by Cass and wary of her, knowing she has more information than she is sharing. Her father and Maree had quarrelled bitterly the night before, and Maree has now disappeared. Her Norwegian engineer ANDERS is obviously lying about where he was, and his second version, that film star Favelle wanted to sleep with him, isn’t very credible either. The longship’s third crew member, GIBBIE, has a grudge against eco-activists like Favelle, and was glimpsed aboard the longship on the night she died. Cass’s old school-friend INGA was angered by Favelle offering to adopt her cute toddler, Charlie. Furthermore, while she was in the isles Favelle was going to endorse a major windfarm, giving anti-windfarm activist KEVIN a reason to want her put out of action – and Kevin and Inga seem to be having an affair.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来自苏格兰因弗内斯的迪•加文•麦克雷奉命前往调查一桩发生在船上的惨案。在调查中他遇到了迷人的卡斯，虽然知道这名女子对他查案仍有所隐瞒，他还是情不自禁的为这名女子所深深吸引。卡斯的父亲在案情发生的前一夜曾与马瑞发生过激烈的争执，而如今马瑞无端消失了。船上的挪威籍机械师安德斯的第一次口供显然满口谎言，而其第二个版本的证言：影星法薇儿曾试图勾引他，同样显得荒谬滑稽。长船上的另一名船员吉勃则一直对法薇儿这样的环保激进主义者心怀怨念，同时他也被目击者证明曾在法薇儿被杀害的当晚登上过长船。甚至连卡斯的老校友尹佳也曾因法薇儿提出要收养其正蹒跚学步的爱女查理的事而与其发生过不愉快。让事情显得更加错综复杂的是---法薇儿正打算为岛上的一家主要风力发电场做宣传的举动进一步激怒了反风力发电的激进分子凯文，使得凯文不顾一切的想要阻止她---而这背后似乎还蕴藏着凯文与尹佳暧昧不清的关系。(DC)

Awards/获奖情况：马萨利•泰勒，1958年生于爱丁堡附近，她在西部高地上一坐偏远的农庄里渡过了童年的暑假，这段神奇的经历从此对她的人生产生了深远的影响。17岁那年，她买了人生中的第一艘船，一辆轻量级小赛艇，时至今日，在风平浪静的日子里，她还是会乘坐这辆小艇出海航行。她拥有跌宕起伏的人生经历，包括担任一名法国女爵的贴身女婢和在老式百货公司工作，其后她在邓迪大学学习了英语语言，继续着其帆船运动，成为了一名业余戏剧演员并加入了天主教。随后她进入教师培训学校学习，并作为实习教师在设得兰郡教授英语，法语和戏剧。在那里她拥有一座带花园的房子，有自己的猫和小马驹，她加入了当地戏剧团体，并逐渐融入到了当地社区之中。2007年她将自己的授课时间缩短为每周两天，使得自己能够潜心创作。2008年，她获得了设得兰郡的导游证，如今她每年夏天都会花费大量的时间精力创作歌颂小马驹和角嘴海雀们的诗歌。马萨利的丈夫菲利普是一名剧场调音师兼曲作家，女儿玛尼是一名演员，育有两个孩子。近来马萨利正沉浸在她的新爱好中,那便是在意大利的阿尔卑斯山滑雪和在法国比利牛斯山上进行滑翔运动。她乘坐一艘装备齐全的挪威小船从格里诺克航行至勒威克，并乘坐一艘已有百年历史的渔船从挪威返回。马萨利对于表演的热忱从未减弱，她本人最喜欢的角色便是睡美人里骑着扫帚穿过舞台的女巫。而当有电影剧组在设得兰郡开拍时，她极大的体验了一次群众演员的乐趣，如今的她还是当地作家团体中的一员，并打算借此机会创作出精彩紧迫的侦探小说。作者本人，如同书中的女主人公卡斯•林奇一样，拥有一艘长达八米的龙骨艇，并拥有快艇驾驶证，因此对于《长船上的惨案》的创作背景，她可以称得上了然于心，因为她以自己所熟知的水域为模型，从而进行了本书的构架与创作。

About the Author/作者介绍： Marsali Taylor was born near Edinburgh, in 1958. Her childhood was made magical by summers spent in a remote cottage in the West Highlands. She bought her first boat aged 17, a lightweight racing dinghy which she still takes out on calm days. Other ‘gap’ year experiences included being an au-pair for a French Countess and working in an old-fashioned department store. She read English at Dundee University, continued her sailing, became involved in amateur dramatics and was confirmed in the Catholic church. She went on to teacher training college and as a probationer moved to Shetland, to teach English, French and Drama. There she aquired a house, garden, cats and ponies, joined a local drama group and became an accepted member of the community. In 2007 she reduced her teaching time to two days, to be able to concentrate on writing. In 2008, she qualified as a tourist guide for Shetland, and now spends much of the summer waxing lyrical about ponies and puffins. Her husband Philip is a theatre musician and composer. She has one daughter, Marnie, who is an actress and two grandchildren.

Marsali enjoys new experiences: she’s been ski-ing in the Italian Alps and paragliding in the French Pyrenees. She came up from Greenock to Lerwick on a full-rigged Norwegian ship, and returned from Norway in a force 10 in a 100-year old fishing boat. She continues to act – her favourite role was as the witch in Sleeping Beauty, when she was flown across the stage on a broomstick. When a film crew came to Shetland, she had fun being a two-line extra. She’s a keen member of the local writers’ group, using it as a chance to write compressed detective stories. Like her heroine Cass Lynch, she owns an 8m keelboat, and has passed her Yachtmaster exam; she knows the setting of Death on a Longship very well, as she teaches sailing at Brae, and considers the waters of Swarback’s Minn as an extended back garden.

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