[新鲜书市]流失格雷厄姆格林小说被美国一家犯罪杂志...

流失格雷厄姆格林小说被美国一家犯罪杂志连载

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流失已久的格雷厄姆格林小说去年在得克萨斯州的档案馆面世，并在下周开始将在美国一犯罪杂志上连载。由于格雷厄姆格林并没有该小说，杂志主编称将会挑选一位作家或者通过选拔找出一名适合的写手来完成小说的结尾部分。

Lost Greene novel to be serialised in crime magazine

The long lost Graham Greene novel that was unearthed（露面） in a Texas archive（档案馆） late last year is to be serialised （连载）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（贵族）.

"Alice Lady Perriham had overloaded （负担太重）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 （悬吊着）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 Its most recent issue features a lost PG Wodehouse story and a previously unpublished Mark Twain tale.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·格林简介

格林1904年出生于英国中部赫特福德郡。曾在牛津大学贝利奥学学院攻读历史。当过记者，信奉天主教，第二次世界大战期间他作为军情六处的官员被派往非洲。战后他创作了大量的间谍小说。被指控的间谍作家。最重要的间谍活动军情六处的情报员，被派往非洲工作。

最着名的作品《第三个人》《一支出卖的枪》《密使》《我们的人在哈瓦那》《人性的因素》《荣誉与权力》

以间谍生涯为素材的作品《我们的人在哈瓦那》《忧虑重重的内阁》《事情的实质》