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爱德华·霍克 Edward D. Hoch
作者  (1930年2月22日2008年1月17日)

阅读爱德华·霍克 Edward D. Hoch在小说之家的作品!!!
  霍克1930年2月22日生于美国纽约州罗彻斯特。9岁那年,在接触了“埃勒里·奎因推理剧场”广播剧后,从此深深迷上推理小说。他19岁加入美国推理作家协会,因而认识了约翰·狄克森·卡尔、埃勒里·奎因、克雷格·莱斯等大师级作家,埋下了日后提笔创作推理小说的种子。结束大学学业、自韩战退役后,他投身于出版工作,接着进入广告公司上班,并开始大量从事推理创作。1955年12月他在廉价杂志《著名侦探》上发表了处女作《死人村》,小说描绘了一位通灵侦探西蒙·阿克,这是霍克的第一位系列侦探人物。1962年他开始在美国两大推理杂志中的《希区柯克推理杂志》(Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)上发表作品。在1968年以小说《长方形的房间》(The Oblong Room)拿下爱伦·坡奖的最佳短篇小说奖后,他获得了一份长篇小说合同,并于第二年完成了自己的第一部长篇《粉碎的大乌鸦》(The Shattered Raven)。这些使他毅然决定辞职而专事推理写作。自1973年5月开始,他在美国发行量最大、经营最长久的《EQMM》上持续刊载小说达34年之久(他在这一杂志上发表的作品数量超过450篇,几乎占毕生总创作量的一半),并在埃勒里·奎因晚年为其代笔完成了长篇小说《色情电影谋杀案》(The Blue Movie Murders,1972)。爱德华·霍克用他量多且质精的作品和长期以来投入推理创作的执着,除爱伦坡奖外还拿下了1998、2001年安东尼奖的最佳短篇小说奖,并获颁1999年金德林加奖、2000年夏姆斯奖和2001年安东尼奖之终身成就奖,以及2001年爱伦坡奖大师奖等众多奖项,肯定了他多年来为推理文学作出的重要贡献。
  爱德华·霍克的短篇作品文笔流畅、结构严谨、谜团设置巧妙、逻辑性和公平性兼具,是20世纪欧美“不可能犯罪”创作史上的最后一位大师。他坚持黄金时代作家的理念,认为谜团是小说的核心,而且他还善于创新,比如在推理中融合科幻小说和幻想小说元素,创作了《转换机》等三部科幻推理小说。霍克的笔下曾出现过二十余位侦探角色,且大部分都构成系列,其中最著名者莫过于山姆·霍桑(Dr. Sam Hawthorne),这位在新英格兰小镇行医的医生总是能在镇里遇到并破解各类不可能犯罪案件,像是走进屋桥便消失的马车、被人监视的屋子发生杀人案、众目睽睽下逃走的脱逃大王等等,这也使得《山姆·霍桑犯罪诊断书》成了他最为人津津乐道的代表作。其他如以一位妙手神偷为主角的尼克费尔威系列(Nick Velvet Series)和以康涅狄格州某市警察局重案科的一位探长为主角的利奥波德队长系列(Captain Leopold Series),也很受读者欢迎。在谈及为何对短篇小说情有独钟时,他说道:“我可以一两周就写出一篇短篇小说,长篇往往要花费我两三个月。我很少写长篇,我觉得自己会半途而废,总想到下一个点子。”


  Edward Dentinger Hoch (February 22, 1930 – January 17, 2008) was a prolific American writer of detective fiction. Although he wrote several novels, he was primarily known for his vast short story output which, at the time of his death, was over 950.
  
  Biography
  
  Hoch (pronounced hoke) was born in Rochester, New York and began writing in the 1950s; his first story appeared in 1955 in Famous Detective Stories and was followed by stories in The Saint Mystery Magazine. In January 1962 he began appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. In December 1962 he kicked off his most successful collaboration, with the appearance of his first story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; in the years since EQMM has published over 450 of Hoch's stories, roughly half of his total output. In May 1973 EQMM began publishing a new Hoch story in every monthly issue; as of May 2007 the author had gone an astonishing 34 years without missing a single issue.
  Other magazines Hoch wrote for included Adventure,Double-Action Detective, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Horror and Web Detective Stories.
  Hoch was a master of the classic detective story, emphasizing mystery and deduction rather than suspense and fast action; EQMM has called him "The King of the Classical Whodunit." His stories are very well written and are usually tightly plotted puzzles, with carefully and fairly presented clues, both physical and psychological. He was particularly partial to "impossible crime" tales, where to all appearances the crime (usually a murder) could not have been committed at all; he invented numerous variants on the locked room mystery popularized by John Dickson Carr and others. For instance, in "The Second Problem of the Covered Bridge", a man is shot at close range while alone on a covered bridge, while crowds of witnesses watch both ends of the bridge. Hoch cited Graham Greene,John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and Jorge Luis Borges as influences on his fiction.
  Hoch also published magazine stories under the names "Stephen Dentinger", "R. L. Stevens", "Pat McMahon", "Anthony Circus", "Irwin Booth", "R. E. Porter", "Mr. X" and the House Name "Ellery Queen". In many cases he also had a story under his own name in the same magazine issue. Hoch also wrote a novel published as Ellery Queen, under the supervision and editing of Manfred Lee, half of the writing partnership known as Ellery Queen.
  In 2001 Hoch was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, the first time a Grand Master was known primarily for short fiction rather than novels.
  Edward D. Hoch died at home in Rochester of a heart attack. His wife, née Patricia McMahon, was his only immediate survivor. Hoch was 77 at his death.
  
  Series storie
  
  The overwhelming majority of Hoch's stories feature series characters. He has created at least a dozen different series of stories for EQMM alone. His Captain Leopold series reached over 100 stories.
  
  Nick Velvet
  Nick Velvet is a professional thief for hire, with a peculiar specialty: for a flat fee, he steals only objects of negligible apparent value. Since his first appearance in EQMM in September 1966, he has stolen such things as an old spiderweb (which he was then obliged to replace), a day-old newspaper, and a used teabag. His original fee for a theft was $20,000. In 1980 he raised it to $25,000 at the urging of his long-time girlfriend Gloria (who met Nick in 1965 when he was burgling her New York apartment); in the 21st century his fee has risen to $50,000. Unlike many fictional thieves, Nick usually works alone on his thefts—in fact, until 1979 Gloria believed that Nick worked for the U.S. government.
  The Nick Velvet caper stories generally combine a near-impossible theft with the mystery of why someone would pay $20,000 to have an apparently valueless item stolen. Although Nick often appears as devoid of curiosity as his targets are of value, circumstances usually force him to identify his clients' true motives, making him as much of a detective as Hoch's more conventional characters. Most of the Nick Velvet stories have a light and humorous tone reminiscent of Leslie Charteris' early stories of the Saint. The fundamental immorality of Nick's chosen profession is frequently offset by the larger justice resulting from his detective work.
  A Nick Velvet story, "The Theft of the Circus Poster" in May 1973, began Hoch's unbroken string of monthly appearances in EQMM. Another story, "The Theft of the Rusty Bookmark" in January 1998 featured the real-life Mysterious Bookshop of New York City, and its real-life owner (and Edgar-winning publisher and editor), Otto Penzler. "The Theft of Gloria's Greatcoat" (May 1998), which describes the first meeting of Nick and Gloria, is unusual in that it is told in the first person by Gloria; all of the other Nick Velvet stories (and indeed the majority of Hoch's stories) are third-person narratives.
  
  Captain Leopold
  Captain Jules Leopold is a police detective, the head of the Violent Crimes Squad of the police department of an unnamed city in Connecticut. Along with his colleagues Lieutenant Fletcher and Sergeant Connie Trent, he is one of Hoch's most conventional characters. The Leopold stories are police procedurals on the surface, showing the interaction of the officers as they investigate crimes, but the crimes themselves are frequently unusual and reflect Hoch's skill at plotting and placement of clues. The story outcomes usually depend on the deductive ability of Leopold and his comrades rather than on straightforward police work, and sometimes feature impossible crimes and locked rooms.
  The Leopold stories best illustrate one of the attractions of Hoch's series tales: The characters age and alter realistically with time. In the course of the series, Leopold has divorced, remarried, retired, returned to work, and retired a second time. Lieutenant Fletcher has been promoted to captain to replace him, and Connie Trent has been promoted to Lieutenant. In some of the recent stories, the focus is on Fletcher and Trent, with Leopold only acting as a respected adviser.
  Leopold first appeared as a subsidiary character in a 1957 story. In "The Theft of Leopold's Badge" in March 1991, Hoch brought Captain Leopold and Nick Velvet together in the same story.
  EQMM has published the majority of the Leopold stories, but a number have appeared in AHMM as well. The Edgar-winning "The Oblong Room," perhaps the most frequently reprinted Leopold story, was first published in The Saint Magazine.
  
  Dr. Sam Hawthorne
  Dr. Sam Hawthorne is a retired family practitioner who is also a specialist in impossible murders. His tales are told as reminiscences of his small-town medical practice in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Sam Hawthorne tries to live a quiet life in the fictional New England town of Northmont, but wherever he goes someone always seems to die in a most improbable way.
  First appearing in 1974, the Dr. Sam Hawthorne stories are carefully researched historical pieces, rich with period details about Sam's cars, medical practices of the times, politics, and clothing. The stories of this series are among Hoch's most humane tales: Sam himself is a cheerful fellow and tells his tales with humor, but his first-person narratives give readers a close look at his distress at the murders he investigates and his sympathy for the survivors. Because most of the tales take place in a single small town, the series has a larger-than-usual cast of recurring minor characters.
  Each Hawthorn story is a "locked room mystery", where an impossible crime occurs, usually a murder.
  The earlier tales of the series include one peculiar device: Each one ends with a hint about the next story's central puzzle, and each one begins with a reference to the previous story's hint. Such a device is sometimes inserted when stories are anthologized, to make them seem more like a continuous narrative, but it is very unusual in the initial publication of independent stories in a series.
  In "The Problem of Suicide Cottage" (EQMM, July 2007), it is revealed old Sam is 80 years old, and has a daughter named Samantha. He is telling his stories in 1976, and was born in 1896.
  
  Rand
  Jeffery (sometimes Jeffrey) Rand is a code and cipher expert, formerly with the Department of Concealed Communications of British intelligence. The Rand stories take place in exotic locations around the world, and frequently feature secret messages or codes. After he left Concealed Communications, many of his stories involved his half-Egyptian, half-Scots wife, Lella Gaad, who Rand met in "The Spy and The Nile Mermaid". Rand met another Hoch character, Michael Vlado, in "The Spy and the Gypsy".
  
  Simon Ark
  Simon Ark was the protagonist of Hoch's first published story. He looks to be an ordinary man in his sixties but is actually over 2000 years old, a Coptic priest who travels the world looking for evil—specifically, Satan. It is said that he is cursed by God, that when Jesus carrying the cross wanted to rest, Ark refused him rest and in turn has never known rest himself, doomed to wander the globe forever. However the immortality element is not played up in any way and is just incidental. The Simon Ark stories have supernatural themes, although the crimes in them are always found to have been committed by mundane means.
  
  Ben Snow
  Ben Snow features in a series of American Old West mysteries set around the turn of the 20th century. Like the Dr. Sam Hawthorne series, these tales are carefully researched historical pieces, sometimes including real historical characters such as Butch Cassidy. He met another Hoch character, Sam Hawthorne, in "The Problem of the Haunted Teepee".
  The first Ben Snow series appeared in 1961 in The Saint Mystery Magazine; the series has since been continued in EQMM.
  
  Stanton and Ive
  Walt Stanton and Juliet Ives are two Princeton graduates turned international couriers that have appeared in newer stories, beginning with "Courier and Ives" in November 2002. The pair are often sent to pick up or retrieve an item, and end up picking up the mystery around it.
  
  Sir Gideon Parrot
  Sir Gideon Parrot (pronounced parroe) is Hoch's humorous tribute to the famous detectives of the Golden Age of mystery fiction, particularly Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell. These stories are gentle parodies of classic mystery devices, the ones so overused they have become cliches.
  
  Michael Vlado
  Michael Vlado is the young king of a Romany (Gypsy) tribe in contemporary eastern Europe.
  
  Alexander Swift
  Alexander Swift, one of Hoch's more recent creations, is an intelligence agent for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. The stories comprise more nearly a serial than a series, as Swift probes ever deeper into rumors that the fort of West Point, commanded by General Benedict Arnold, houses a traitor who will betray the fort to the British Army. In the last Swift story, "Swift Among the Pirates", Swift travels to England, to discover Benedict Arnold is dead.
  
  Barney Hamet
  Barney Hamet is a mystery writer who stumbles into real mysteries when he attends mystery conventions. Hamet also featured in Hoch's 1969 novel The Shattered Raven.
  
  Susan Holt
  Susan Holt is a minor executive, in charge of promotions for a department store chain.
  
  Interpol
  The Interpol stories are an apparently discontinued series from the 1970s and '80s. Interpol officers Sebastian Blue and Laura Charme investigated cases of international crime in Europe.
  
  Al Darlan
  Al Darlan (originally Al Diamond; Hoch decided to change the character's name after the earliest stories to avoid confusion with radio/TV detective Richard Diamond) is a private investigator whose appearances have been sparse. His last appearance was in the May 2008 issue of EQMM.
  
  Novel
  
  The Shattered Raven, 1969. Barney Hamet investigates a murder at the Mystery Writers of America.
  The Blue Movie Murders, 1972 (as Ellery Queen). "Trouble shooter" Mike McCall investigates the murder of a film producer.
  
  Science fiction detective storie
  These three science fiction novels, set in the mid-21st century, feature Carl Crader and Earl Jazine of the Computer Investigation Bureau, nicknamed the "Computer Cops".
  The Transvection Machine, 1971
  The Fellowship of the HAND, 1972
  The Frankenstein Factory, 1975
  
  Short story collection
  
  City of Brass (Simon Ark), 1971 (paperback)
  The Judges of Hades (Simon Ark), 1971 (paperback)
  The Spy and the Thief (Rand / Nick Velvet), 1971
  The Thefts of Nick Velvet (Nick Velvet), 1978
  The Quests of Simon Ark (Simon Ark), 1984 (hardback)
  Leopold's Way (Captain Leopold), 1985
  The Spy Who Read Latin (Rand), 1990
  The Night My Friend (non-series), 1992
  Diagnosis: Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 1996
  The Ripper of Storyville (Ben Snow), 1997 (with Marvin Lachman)
  The Velvet Touch (Nick Velvet), 2000
  The Old Spies Club (Rand), 2001
  The Night People (non-series), 2001
  The Iron Angel (Michael Vlado), 2003
  More Things Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 2006
  
  Collections edited by Hoch
  
  Dear Dead Days, 1972
  Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1976 through 1981
  All But Impossible!, 1981
  The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1982 through 1995
  Murder Most Sacred: Great Catholic Tales of Mystery and Suspense,1989
  Twelve American Detective Stories, 1997
  
  Award
  
  1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America): "The Oblong Room", The Saint Mystery Magazine, July 1967
  1998 Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention): "One Bag of Coconuts", EQMM, November 1997
  2001 Anthony Award (Bouchercon): "The Problem of the Potting Shed", EQMM, July 2000
  2007 Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award (awarded 2008): "The Theft of the Ostracized Ostrich", EQMM, June 2007
  Lifetime Achievement Award (Private Eye Writers of America), 2000
  Grand Master (Mystery Writers of America), 2001
  Lifetime Achievement Award (Bouchercon), 2001
  
  Reference
  
  ^ a b Francis M. Nevins Jr.,"Hoch, Edward D(entinger)",in Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers,edited by James Vinson and D.L. Kirkpatrick. St. James Press, 1985. pp. 452-60.
    

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