河景小区的Google map考究
这篇书评可能有关键情节透露
边读边考究: (读的是原版小说,可能跟中文版译名没有对应上) 本小侦探又要去对照书本里的地点了,当彩蛋来挖。 原文叫Riverview close没读过中文版,在此我称之为河景小区,有点像这个位置,但是按照书中画的fox&duck是东边的话,好像方向又不对。(不过这个案发小区是作者虚构的小区,所以实际上并不存在,只能用附近场景想象住在这个小区能看到美景)
原文提及到开书店的老妇CP会坐65路巴士去Richmond的推理书店:“Ten minutes later, the two women were standing at the bus stop, waiting for the number 65, which would take them into Richmond. ” 而65号巴士恰恰也是走petersham路,图中刚好有四个bus stop,这里作者又再次拉我们读者们回归实景了哈哈:
接下来是对于Roderick Browne的职业描述,原文“He always wore a suit to work, even though he would change into white scrubs as soon as he arrived at the clinic in Cadogan Square. He owned the practice and it was important to make a good impression on his staff” 住在woodlands的Roderick Browne是一位拥有自己诊所的牙医,而在 Cadogan Square路附近确实有不少牙医诊所:
安东尼独自去调查书外世界神秘F组织(姑且叫这个吧)的创始人的前妻Lady Barraclough是一位独居“富婆”自述喜欢住在哈罗德百货附近(在国内相当于住在王府井对面吧,方便买买买吧)而她住在Trevor Square附近,1分钟就能到哈罗德百货,那可能是Brompton路对面的那排房子里了: 原文: ‘It’s so marvellous being just a minute’s walk from Harrods,’ she told the magazine, which provided me with the next piece of the puzzle. I launched Zoopla, the property website, and – street by street – searched for houses in the immediate vicinity of Harrods department store in Knightsbridge. This took a bit longer, but eventually I came across a property in Trevor Square, just the other side of Brompton Road.
F组织所在位置推测,从办公室窗外看是在Fenchurch车站5分钟的路程范围(具体没有描述,当然作为重要组织要虚假定位,读者们只能靠想象定位它的位置) 原文:“I opened it to find myself in a small, square room with a window looking out over railway lines branching out from Fenchurch Street Station, which was about five minutes’ walk away. ”
—————————— 书中又到了作者去现场采风的时间,这次更能接近模拟tea cosy推理书店的位置了,根据安东尼所说的,他一下车站就先去了拐角的waterstones,然后再沿着hill经过了odeon电影院,想必书店应在hill路附近,我画了安东尼大致的行动路线: 原文:“I found a Waterstones on a corner and knew I must be getting near. This was where the two ladies had sent any customers looking for books they considered violent or profane. I continued past an incredibly tatty Odeon cinema (‘Fanatical about film’, it said, with the first F falling off) and up the hill. ”
沿路发现了安东尼吐槽的odeon电影院的招牌上Fanatical about film里说F掉下来了,现在看目测已经补回去F了哈哈哈哈:
然后安东尼继续沿hill走,去到了一家花店,但是我搜索了附近只有两家,另一家似乎变成了女装店了,猜测安东尼当时问的可能是这一家BM花店(可能)
刚好附近过两三间就有一间书店了,对应了花店女店员的那句话two doors away?(不知道是不是tea cosy的原型呢哈哈哈)
这家书店刚好就在跟花店附近(不过不是推理书店了)
那么我们可以想象到两个老妇👵曾经经营的书店模样了(尽管不是现实) ————— 接下来安东尼又带我们去了petersham大酒店参观(bushi),他描述中这里可以媲美在河景小区住所看得美景,通过这家酒店可以一窥河景小区的大致美景。(大草地还有河堤,谁不喜欢这样的窗外美景呢)
安东尼在外面看的大酒店,但是我们可以去trip里面,借此看到从酒店顶楼窗口眺望的河景风景,确实很治愈呢:
—————— 书里即将进入尾声,到了霍桑和达德利去找Sarah Baines 的“bella”的位置,要与Sarah对峙: 霍桑和达德利打车经过Richmond桥,驶入St Margaret,兜了个弯,然后在Orleans路左转,沿着Marble Hill Park的河边开车,那里有一个渡口,正好停了很多船。 原文“The taxi took them across Richmond Bridge and into St Margaret’s. Then it looped round, following the river back towards Petersham but on the other side. ” “The driver obeyed, cutting down the edge of Marble Hill Park, the river now ahead of them. They came to a sharp right turn.”
放大看到了河岸边停靠着很多船,当然不是这个渡口,可以得再往东边开的某个河边……(因为属于角色之一,所以又是一个真假混杂的位置)
——————— 真相大白时刻,khan👮再次不得已回到petersham听最终结论,一边坐车看着自己的威水新闻一边吐槽kew桥的糟糕路况(塞车): 原文“For a start, the traffic was terrible on Kew Bridge, which had been built in 1903 when horse-drawn omnibuses and hansom cabs would have been carrying pleasure-seekers to Kew Gardens and Richmond Green”
—————— 回到现在的时间线: 安东尼和khan👮相约去红狮酒吧碰头,确实就在苏格兰场附近: 原文描述酒吧装修风格,与实景一致,让远在大洋外的我们也能看看: The Red Lion was about as traditional as a pub can be: brass lamps and window boxes on the outside, polished wood and mirrored shelves within. It stood on a corner, a few minutes’ walk from New Scotland Yard, with Downing Street just across the road. I arrived there exactly on time and found the detective sitting at a table with a glass of Coke.
文中最后还提到了达德利住的位置,在rivercourt,伦敦确实也有这个路,但是是分开的river court,考虑到达德利是本书的角色,估计也是虚拟的位置。 至此,小侦探跟随着三位角色走完了Richmond这个迷人又高档的犯罪地点(不得不感慨下,英伦郊区的绿化做得蛮好的,绿油油的一片) 上一篇《关键句是死亡》也跟着安东尼跑遍了英国哈哈: https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/dispatch/review/14450862?dt_dapp=1