三十九级台阶
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理查德・哈内走回他伦敦的公寓,感到百无聊赖。他想,在英格兰好像什么令人激动的事情也不曾发生过。也许他该回非洲去。然而,那天晚上来了一位叫斯卡德尔的客人,给他讲了一个离奇的故事。一周以后,哈内卧在苏格兰荒原的石桶丛中,饥肠辘辘,筋疲力尽。一架小飞机在他头顶的蓝天上低空盘旋。哈内一动不动地躺着,希望谢天谢地飞机不要发现他,同时琢磨着口袋里斯卡德尔的黑色小笔记本。斯卡德尔在笔记本里记着“黑石”,这个神秘的黑石是谁呢?那个“三十九级台阶”又怎么那么重要?六月十五日伦敦会出什么事?而斯卡德尔已经被害,哈内的敌人在苏格兰的山山岭岭日夜追捕他,他必须自己搞清这是为什么。如果他的敌人抓住他,就会把他杀掉……约翰・巴肯(1875―1940):苏格兰作家,政治家,曾任加拿大总督。他有许多著作,最有名的是理查德・哈内系列惊险小说,其中包括《三十九级台阶》,该书写于一九一五年,后改编成著名导演希区科克执导的电影。
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He took a large whisky for himself. He drank it quickly, and then put the glass down so violently that it broke.
He talked, too, about a Black Stone and a man that lisped in his speech, and he described very particularly somebody that he never referred to without a shudder--an old man with a young voice who could hood his eyes like a hawk.
An English prison would be a safe place for me until the 15th of June. 原文: They were clever enough for anything, and an English prison was as good a way of getting rid of me till after June 15th as a knife in my chest.
I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
I realized that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out.
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