Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
1926年のエディンバラを舞台に、貴族探偵ダンディ・ギルヴァーが夫に命を狙われていると訴える女性を助けるため、女中に変装して屋敷へ潜入する歴史ミステリ。上流階級の機知と家内労働の現実を交差させながら、ユーモアと危険を両立させる。
作品情報
貴族探偵は、女中の制服をまとって密室の家庭へ入り込む。
『Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains』は Catriona McPherson のダンディ・ギルヴァー・シリーズの一作。Minotaur Books 版ハードカバーの ISBN を対象にし、別 ISBN のペーパーバックも流通している。
レビュー要約
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古典的な英国ミステリの味わいを保ちながら、主人公の軽妙な語りと階級社会への観察で読みやすさを生んでいる。滑稽さと不穏さの切り替えを楽しむ読者に向く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Minotaur Books
- 発売日
- 2011-08-16
- ページ数
- 293ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.04 x 2.76 x 21.39 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780312654184
- ISBN-10
- 0312654189
- 価格
- 8578 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths
One of The Boston Globe 's Best Mysteries of 2011 Guaranteed to appeal to those who have never got over the death of Dorothy L. Sayers. Financial Times (UK) Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy Gilver, a wealthy and witty aristocrat (and sometimes amateur sleuth) receives a letter from Lollie Balfour, who insists that her husband of five years is having her followed and her mail is being steamed open. The only way for Dandy to help is by pretending to applying for a job as a ladys maid in Lollies house. Dandy gets a crash course from her own maid and arrives at 31 Heriot Row, ready to put all of her detection skills to good use. Why does Mr. Balfour want to get rid of his wife? And can Dandy stay in disguise long enough to evade the villains? Charming and funny, Dandy Gilver is an irresistible sleuth who is sure to win over mystery lovers everywhere. Readers who cant get enough of Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, and Dorothy Parker will definitely find a new favorite in Catriona McPhersons smart and original mystery.
CATRIONA MCPHERSON was born in in Scotland in 1965. Formerly an academic, she has now been a full-time fiction writer for ten years. Until 2010, Catriona lived on a farm in a beautiful valley in Galloway. She now lives on a farm in a beautiful valley in northern California with her scientist husband and two black cats.
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Another great Dandy Gilver adventure
I adore this mystery series and am completely attached to Dandy Gilver. I usually find this genre tiresome, but Catriona McPherson's writing seems to get better and better. Dandy is plucky, but not annoyingly so, and clever, but not unrealistically so as in so many other mystery novels of this sort. The pace is just right, the characters funny and warm. I do wish she'd write a little faster, it always seems ages until the next installment, but I guess that's why the quality is still so high. Bravo!
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Great!
Another great Dandy Gilver mystery. Love how she gets undercover in this one.
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Dandy investigates the puzzling murder of a bully
Ha, so much for my prediction - 100% wrong! And yet irritatingly I did have a slight feeling about the real culprit. Our amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver receives a letter from an Edinburgh lady, accusing her husband of trying to kill her, she begs Dandy to come and work undercover as her maid in order to help her escape. In disguise as Miss Rossiter, ladies maid, Dandy finds her employer Lollie Balfour (real first name Walburga!) to be a sacred waif of a woman, but surprisingly her husband Phillip doesn't appear to be the sort of monster who threatens to kill his wife. Yet talking to the other servants Dandy finds that each of them has a tale of the spiteful, cruel things that Mr Balfour has done to them. Unsurprising then that he is found dead, stabbed in the neck with one of the kitchen knives. This is a classic golden age locked door mystery. Because the butler meticulously locks all the door every night the murder must be an 'inside job', certainly nearly everyone has a motive, but it seems that everyone also has an alibi! As always this was a cracking read, I was totally convinced the murderer was someone completely different and yet the clues were all there ready to be unpicked, just little nuggets dropped carelessly into conversations. Overall, very satisfactory mystery with a plausible ending that I did not see coming.
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Good one
A very different protagonist! The British Golden age is over, and Dandy is bored with upper crust life in the country since her boys are off at school and her husband is always busy with the estate.. She is a fun amateur detective, and half the time she isn't sure what she's doing, but she's learning with a little help from a handsome and very intelligent young friend.
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Gripping read
A whodunnit set in 1920s Edinburgh. The heroine goes 'undercover' as a servant to discover what is going on. Interesting historical detail without being overwhelming. Good page turner.
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