《被诅咒的木乃伊》 / The Cursed Mummy

《被诅咒的木乃伊》 is the 岛田庄司 Holmes pastiche discussed in 144. 被诅咒的木乃伊：福尔摩斯会和老舍联手探案吗？. The episode notes an older Chinese title, 《夏目漱石伦敦杀人事件》, which makes the book’s core game explicit: 夏目漱石 is placed in London with 福尔摩斯 and 华生 to help solve a bizarre mummy case.

The plot begins with Soseki’s alienation in London and a haunted-room disturbance, then moves into a wealthy widow’s missing-brother case. A man claiming to be Kingsley brings Oriental objects, warns of a curse, and later appears to die in a sealed room as a dried mummy. Holmes eventually reconstructs the fraud: the real Kingsley had already died, an impostor used the dead body and Japanese armor to fake the transformation, and a staged fire let the impostor escape notice.

The episode’s reading value is structural. The case uses 本格推理 materials such as a locked room, corpse substitution, clues, false writing, and motive, but the source emphasizes 双手稿叙事 and 东方主义谜题误导 as the book’s more distinctive pleasures. Soseki’s manuscript makes Holmes comic and unstable; Watson’s manuscript retells the same moments in a classical detective mode.

Connections

• 岛田庄司 - author.
• 福尔摩斯, 华生, and 夏目漱石 - central cross-textual figures.
• 福尔摩斯同人传统 - literary tradition the book belongs to.
• 双手稿叙事 - two-account structure.
• 东方主义谜题误导 - fake curse and mixed Oriental props.
• 本格推理, Observation Before Inference, and Interpretation And Overinterpretation - reasoning frames.