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But I suppose I have to add that
但我有必要补充一句
even if he had lived to finish The Mistery of Edwin Drood,
即使狄更斯完成了，埃德温·德鲁德之谜
he couldn't really have claimed to be the pioneer of the genre.
他也称不上是该流派的缔造者
Because it seems to me the real influential inventor
我认为，为调查型犯罪小说
of the investigative crime novel was an American.
带来实质影响的先驱是一位美国人
It was Edgar Allan Poe.
他就是埃德加·爱伦·坡
In the 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe wrote three stories
在19世纪40年代，埃德加·爱伦·坡写了三个故事
that he called Tales of Ratiocination.
他称之为推理小说
I can imagine that on the bookshelf nowadays,
可以想象，如果它们出现在今天的书架上
it would leap off the shelves, wouldn't it?
肯定会遭到疯抢，不是吗?
Tales of Ratiocination, tales of Reasoning, tales of using your mind.
推理小说需要动用大脑推理
And of there were three of them as I say.
如我所说，包括三个故事
First one was The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841.
第一个是写于1841年的，莫格街谋杀案
Then The Mystery of Mary Roget in 1842.
然后是1842年的，玛丽.罗杰疑案
And The Purloined Letter 3 years later 1845.
和3年后1845年写的，失窃的信
And it's The Murders in the Rue Morgue,the first one,
第一本小说，莫格街谋杀案
really offers the combination of violent death and puzzle solving,
真正地将暴力死亡与解密融合在了一起
that I think obviously whole marks of the genre.
我认为它们显然都完整体现了该流派的特征
We are going to be looking at from different angles today.
今天我们将通过不同的角度进行解析
The mystery The Murders in the Rue Morgue poses
莫格街谋杀案，中的谜团
is an exceptionally gruesomely one.
让人感到格外的毛骨悚然
Shrieks are heard coming from an apparently sealed room in Paris.
巴黎一个密闭的房间里传出了尖叫声
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is also...not just the first detective story,
莫格街谋杀案，不但是第一部侦探小说
it is also the first sealed room detective story as well.
而且是第一部密室侦探小说
Terrible shrieks are heard coming from this apparently sealed room.
明显封闭着的房间里传出恐怖的尖叫声
When people break in, a mother and her daughter
人们破门而入，发现一对母女
are found killed in the most hideous way.
以惨不忍睹的方式被杀
The both suffered absolutely terrible injuries
对于她们遭受的可怕伤害
which Edgar Allan Poe given his usual style of writing loved.
爱伦·坡用他喜欢的惯用方式进行了描写
Absolutely lingers with great delighted.
他完全享受其中，毫不吝惜笔墨
It's like the most pouring autopsy report
读起来像是信息量巨大的尸检报告
reading page after page in the only part of that novel.
一页接一页，自成一章
And amongst the many horrors macabre horrors is
小说里众多让人毛骨悚然的场景之一
the fact that the daughter's body has been discovered stuffed
是女儿的尸体被发现头朝下
head downwards on the chimney of the apartment.
塞在房子的烟囱里
It's something you feel that Miss Marple would have blenched out
这让人觉得马普尔小姐在调查时看到这些
having to investigate this kind of things.
肯定会被吓跑
