| 词条 | Under the Beetle's Cellar |
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| name = Under the Beetle's Cellar | image = File:UnderTheBeetlesCellar.jpg | caption = First edition (US) | author = Mary Willis Walker | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Suspense | publisher = Doubleday (US) Collins (UK) | release_date = 1995 (US), 1996 (UK) | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 311 | isbn = 0-385-46859-8 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = The Red Scream | followed_by = All the Dead Lie Down }}Under the Beetle's Cellar, is an award-winning 1995 suspense novel by American author Mary Willis Walker, the second in her "Molly Cates" series.[1] TitleThe title is a line from "Under the Light, yet under", a poem by Emily Dickinson which features towards the end of the novel. Plot introductionSet near Austin, Texas it tells of Samuel Mordecai, a fanatical self-proclaimed prophet who kidnaps a bus-load of schoolchildren and their driver, a Vietnam veteran. The captives are to held underground for fifty days on starvation rations and without external contact as "earth purification" in preparation for the imminent end of the world. Surrounded by police and FBI, Mordecai's fortified compound is at the centre of world-wide media attention. Molly Cates is a journalist with the Lone Star Monthly, who interviewed Mordecai two years previously and is the only person outside the cult to have had any contact with him. The book is set in the last four days of the siege and has two narrative streams: one of them underground, as the driver battles to keep up the spirit of the children and prepare for the end of the fifty days; the other follows Molly Cates as she investigates Mordecai's past to find a key to breaking his fanatical resolve as it becomes increasingly apparent that the children are to be sacrificed as part of his apocalyptic plan. Awards
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/mary-willis-walker/ |title=Mary Willis Walker |publisher=FantasticFiction |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crimewritersna.org/hammett/past.htm |title=IACW/NA: Hammett Prize: Past Years |publisher=CrimeWriters NA |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html |title=Mystery Readers International's Macavity Awards |publisher=Mysteryreaders.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Award Nominees and Winners |publisher=Bouchercon.info |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112224218/http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html |archivedate=2013-01-12 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.deckarakademin.se/pagesSE/priser.html |title=Svenska Deckarakademin priser |publisher=Deckarakademin.se |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628125803/http://www.deckarakademin.se/pagesSE/priser.html |archivedate=2012-06-28 |df= }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mary-willis-walker/under-the-beetles-cellar/#review |title=Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker | Kirkus Book Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |date= |accessdate=2012-07-17}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/under-beetles-cellar |title=Under The Beetle'S Cellar |publisher=RT Book Reviews |date=June 15, 1995 |accessdate=2012-07-17}} External links
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