[新鮮書市]流失格雷厄姆格林小說被美國一家犯罪雜誌...

流失格雷厄姆格林小說被美國一家犯罪雜誌連載

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流失已久的格雷厄姆格林小說去年在得克薩斯州的檔案館面世，並在下週開始將在美國一犯罪雜誌上連載。由於格雷厄姆格林並沒有該小說，雜誌主編稱將會挑選一位作家或者通過選拔找出一名適合的寫手來完成小說的結尾部分。

Lost Greene novel to be serialised in crime magazine

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The long lost Graham Greene novel that was unearthed（露面） in a Texas archive（檔案館） late last year is to be serialised （連載）in an American crime magazine from next week.

The Empty Chair is an unfinished mystery story written by Greene when he was just 22. Discovered by scholar Francois Gallix in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, it casts a new light on the author of Brighton Rock and The End of the Affair as he tackles an Agatha Christie-esque country house mystery, complete with a murder and an eclectic（折中的） cast of aristocrats（貴族）.

"Alice Lady Perriham had overloaded （負擔太重）her piece of toast. She had done so in pure abundance of spirit, because the winter sun streamed in a crisp yellow glow across the breakfast table, and because everyone around her was happy," the tale begins. But breakfast is soon interrupted, as the group realise that one of their number, Richard Groves, is missing, and troop upstairs to find him. "He had flung off the sheets and one arm, with its thick black hair around the wrist, dangled （懸吊着）over the edge of the bed. He might have appeared asleep, if his legs had not been hunched up as though he had made an effort to rise. 'Get back, Alice,' cried Collis, and moved forward to the bed and stood staring with fascination at the brown congealed blood. In Groves's breast at a crazy angle stood the knife which had slain him."
The five chapter-long novel – a first glimpse of which was provided in the Times in December - is now to be serialised in its entirety in the Strand magazine from next week. The magazine, which was revived after a half-century hiatus in 1998, can count Arthur Conan Doyle, Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Greene himself among its former contributors. Its most recent issue features a lost PG Wodehouse story and a previously unpublished Mark Twain tale.
With the murder left unsolved by Greene, the magazine's editor Andrew Gulli has said that either a professional writer will be selected to complete the mystery, or a competition will be run for readers to send in a final chapter.
"To me what is wonderful about all of this is that Greene published a few short stories in the old Strand," he told the LA Times, "so I feel we're continuing the tradition."

Keke View：格雷厄姆·格林簡介

格林1904年出生於英國中部赫特福德郡。曾在牛津大學貝利奧學學院攻讀歷史。當過記者，信奉天主教，第二次世界大戰期間他作爲軍情六處的官員被派往非洲。戰後他創作了大量的間諜小說。被指控的間諜作家。最重要的間諜活動軍情六處的情報員，被派往非洲工作。

最着名的作品《第三個人》《一支出賣的槍》《密使》《我們的人在哈瓦那》《人性的因素》《榮譽與權力》

以間諜生涯爲素材的作品《我們的人在哈瓦那》《憂慮重重的內閣》《事情的實質》