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And there is another variant grossing recent book
最近還有一本與此相關的多版本暢銷書
in connection with this that I recommend as well.
也是我想推薦的
It's about the case in 2008.
它寫的是2008年的一個案子
It's by Kate Summerscale,
作者是凱特·薩默斯凱爾
and it's called The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.
書名是，威徹爾先生的猜疑
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.
威徹爾先生的猜疑
And what it does is to describe the investigation conducted by
小說講述了一個真實事件
a real life policeman inspector Whicher into a horrible crime.
偵探威徹爾對一樁恐怖兇殺案展開調查
that very much seizes the attention of the public imagination in 1860s.
展現事件在19世紀60年代引發的公眾聯想
It's a crime that is often referred to as the
本案件通常被稱作
Constance Kent murder case.
康斯坦斯肯特兇殺案
Basically it was a crime in which the body of a child was discovered
案件大體是說一個小男孩被殘忍地殺害在
horribly killed and a very wealthy establishment,
一個富有，但同時很偏僻的
rather isolated house.
寓所里
It was a real life incident, and how to say,
這是一個真實事件，怎么說呢
it created a huge amount of interest in the public at the time.
當時引起了公眾極大的興趣
So real life incident that it's like an anticipation of
真實事件會讓人們聯想到
all the kind of country house mysteries
發生在鄉村小屋的各種神秘事件
and isolated house murdered cases that we seem become used to.
和我們習以為常的偏僻寓所兇殺案
So the emergence of the policeman was important
作為犯罪小說的形成的第一步
as a first step tools crime fiction.
警察的出現是很重要的
And in fact the first policeman,
事實上，第一位警察
first important policeman,
第一位重要的警察
really to play a detective like role
第一位在維多利亞時期的小說中
in any significant way in Victorian fiction
扮演重要偵探角色的警察
is Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House,
是查爾斯·狄更斯所寫的，荒涼山莊，中的巴克特探長
which is 1852 to 1853.
這本小說寫于1852到1853年間
He was based on a real life policeman not Inspector Whicher
他現實中有原型，但并不是威徹爾探長
a man called Inspector Field who Dickens knew and admired.
而是狄更斯認識并尊重的弗里德探長
and in Bleak House Inspector Bucket solves a murder mystery.
在荒涼山莊中，巴克特探長解開一個謀殺之謎
He discovers who killed the respectable lawyer Mr.Tulkinghorn
他發現了殺害可敬的圖金霍恩律師的兇手
and he tracks down the killer.
并追捕到了兇手
And not for the last time in British Crime Fiction,
之后的情節并非最后一次出現在英國偵探小說中
the killer turns out to be an overexcitable foreigner,
兇手被查明是一位興奮過度的外國人
passionately deranged French maid.
一位激動時神經錯亂的法國女仆
