I liked The Mystery of the Yellow Room better than Carr's when I was going through a locked-door phase. It's written well and unlike many of the others, the solution is pretty logical. And it has the best "when you've eliminated the impossible,…
……比阿瑟·邓特还要年轻；现在我老多了。而且现在我们有了具备“真正人性人格”（Genuine People Personalities）的电脑，很难回想起“从前”是什么样子了。最近刚读完加斯东·勒鲁的《黄色房间的秘密》（1908）。不管怎么说（这里绝不剧透），它一直让我猜个不停。
…than Arthur Dent; now I'm much older. And now that we have computers with Genuine People Personalities, it's hard to remember what it was like in the Before Times. Recently finished Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908). For better or worse (no spoilers here), it kept me guessing.
…with a similarly well-worn setup. Precisely because it's well-worn territory, the low-hanging fruit has all been picked, and the art is in coming up with a punchline that feels new or original. "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," published in 1908 and considered one of the best of its time, might seem downright formulaic more than a century later, because so many variations have been published since. So the challenge for the…
在我迷恋密室推理的时期，我更喜欢《黄色房间的秘密》，超过卡尔的作品。文笔很好，而且和很多同类作品不同，它的解答非常符合逻辑。而且它拥有最棒的“当你排除了所有不可能，……
I liked The Mystery of the Yellow Room better than Carr's when I was going through a locked-door phase. It's written well and unlike many of the others, the solution is pretty logical. And it has the best "when you've eliminated the impossible,…
……比阿瑟·邓特还要年轻；现在我老多了。而且现在我们有了具备“真正人性人格”（Genuine People Personalities）的电脑，很难回想起“从前”是什么样子了。最近刚读完加斯东·勒鲁的《黄色房间的秘密》（1908）。不管怎么说（这里绝不剧透），它一直让我猜个不停。
…than Arthur Dent; now I'm much older. And now that we have computers with Genuine People Personalities, it's hard to remember what it was like in the Before Times. Recently finished Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908). For better or worse (no spoilers here), it kept me guessing.
……设定类似，早已被翻来覆去写烂了。正因为这是块被踩烂的地盘，容易摘的果子早被摘光了，现在的艺术就在于抖出一个让人感觉新鲜或原创的包袱。《黄色房间的秘密》出版于 1908 年，被认为是那个时代最优秀的作品之一，但在一个多世纪后的今天看来可能完全就是套路了，因为在那之后已经出版了太多变体。所以对于……来说，挑战在于
…with a similarly well-worn setup. Precisely because it's well-worn territory, the low-hanging fruit has all been picked, and the art is in coming up with a punchline that feels new or original. "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," published in 1908 and considered one of the best of its time, might seem downright formulaic more than a century later, because so many variations have been published since. So the challenge for the…