When I Grow Rich: A Nuri Bey Mystery
イスタンブールを舞台に、偶然の目撃と一つの手渡しが思わぬ事件へ広がっていくミステリ。Nuri Bey の人物像を軸に、異文化の手触りと、先の読めない謎解きの連鎖が立ち上がる。
作品情報
何気ない依頼が、都市の空気ごと事件へ巻き込んでいく。
Joan Fleming の『When I Grow Rich』は、イスタンブールを舞台にした Nuri Bey シリーズの一冊で、偶然目にした事件と、ほんの短い受け渡しが複雑な陰謀へつながっていく。異国の都市の空気、会話の切れ味、そして事件の進み方の速さが合わさり、古典的なミステリらしい推進力を生んでいる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Dover Publications
- 発売日
- 2018-09-12
- ページ数
- 208ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780486825618
- ISBN-10
- 0486825612
- 価格
- 8729 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
"My one single favorite book of the year." — Anthony Boucher, Edgar Award-winning critic for The New York Times Book Review Turkish philosopher and scholar Nuri Bey lives for his books and longs to study at Oxford. His dream is unattainable without the help of his rich patron, Madame Miasma, so when she asks Bey to deliver a parcel to a friend of hers, he readily agrees. The simple-sounding favor leads to Bey's unwitting participation in a fateful string of events, from an airport shootout with members of an international drug smuggling ring to his sudden and unexpected involvement with a rootless British teenager. This atmospheric tale of murder and suspense unfolds in Istanbul, which provides a vivid backdrop of minarets, mosques, and the Bosphorus, the dark and winding waterway that bisects the city. Winner of the 1962 Gold Dagger award from the British Crime Writers' Association, it colorfully portrays the differences between British and Turkish sensibilities in the 1960s. The story reflects a society at the crossroads of Europe and Asia that's caught between a proud sultanic past and a compelling modern future.
Joan Fleming (1908–80) twice received the Gold Dagger Award for Best Novel, awarded by the British Crime Writers' Association, for When I Grow Rich in 1962 and for Young Man, I Think You're Dying in 1970. Fleming published five children's books before her first adult crime novel, 1949's Two Lovers Too Many, after which she wrote more than 30 other books in the genre. Her novel The Deeds of Dr. Deadcert was the basis for the 1958 film Rx for Murder.
レビュー
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As sometimes happens, this is categorized as a genre novel when it is actually literary fiction. Rather than a "mystery" this is a study of intercultural communication, set in Istanbul, and at the same time both shocking and funny. An absorbing book, a wonderful author. Nuri Bey is a wonderful character, and I only wish there were more of him. His only other appearance is in Nothing is the Number When you Die. Also an interesting book - from the perspective of Nuri Bey in England for most of that book. So glad new editions have been brought out of both of these books. Joan Fleming deserves wider readership.
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Fleming created a most engaging hero in Nuri bey, attractive, tolerant, patient beyond belief. But the people he chooses to be loyal to are monsters in their different ways, and his involvement with them is based on his unexamined notions of his own self-interest. His unraveling of a murder and other crimes is absorbing, the book well written. I remain uncertain how much of the author's views of Istanbul and Turkish life can be relied on, but they are certainly colorfully drawn.
関連する文学賞
- CWA KAA Gold Dagger 第8回（1962年） ・Winner