| Anthony Boucher Chronicles: Reviews & Commentary 1942-1947 ネヴィンズJr編 バウチャーのサンフランシスコ・クロニクル誌のレヴュー集 |
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| 作家 | 事典・ガイド |
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| 出版日 | 2009年07月 |
| 平均点 | 7.00点 |
| 書評数 | 1人 |
| No.1 | 7点 | 弾十六 | |
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(2024/09/05 00:01登録) Edited by Francis M. Nevins(Ramble House 2001) サンフランシスコ・クロニクル紙に発表されたバウチャーの書評の集成。 第一部 月間ミステリ書評 第二部 週間ミステリ書評 第三部 その他の書評 という構成。 第一部で1943年2月の話題として「Ａ・Ａ・フェア(1939年デビュー)はガードナーなのか？」というのがあった。この時点ではまだ公表されていなかったようだ。 バウチャーの書評はかなり信頼できると思う。私が読了済みのをざっと読んだだけだが、マクロイ『牧神の午後』を物語が暗号パートで台無し、と書いててかなり共感。フィルポッツも議論ばかりでウンザリ、という感想。 さてサンプル的に第二部から最初の六か月の週間書評本リスト(102タイトル)をご紹介。★は全文を抜粋。[ ]内は編者Nevinsの補足。後半ではペースが落ちてるので五年間だとだいたい500タイトルくらいあるかも(件数は未チェック)。平易な英文だし、kindleだと結構お安いのでいかがでしょう？ ※October 11, 1942 H.F. Heard, MURDER BY REFLECTION (Vanguard, $2). Kelley Roos, THE FRIGHTENED STIFF (Dodd Mead, $2). G.D.H. & Margaret Cole, TOPER’S END (Macmillan, $2). Clifford Knight, THE AFFAIR OF THE SPLINTERED HEART (Dodd Mead, $2). ※October 18, 1942 ★Helen McCloy, CUE FOR MURDER (Morrow, $2). Psychiatrist Basil Willing cracks the murder of a stage corpse in a [19th-century French playwright Victorien] Sardou revival. Admirable writing and meticulously intricate plotting―but what less would you expect from McCloy? Jerome Barry, LEOPARD CAT’S CRADLE (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). A.R. Hilliard, OUTLAW ISLAND (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). George Harmon Coxe, THE CHARRED WITNESS (Knopf, $2). Richard Hull, AND DEATH CAME TOO (Messner, $2) ※October 25, 1942 Virginia Rath, POSTED FOR MURDER (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). ★A.A. Fair [Erle Stanley Gardner], BATS FLY AT DUSK (Morrow, $2). Remember Donald Lam joined the Navy? So now Bertha Cool flounders alone through an intricate mess of blind beggars, music boxes and pet bats, with Donald offstage as armchair detective―if armchairs are G.I. at Vallejo. Just about the best Fair yet; and the best Fair is the best fare. Judson P. Philips [Hugh Pentecost], THE FOURTEENTH TRUMP (Dodd Mead, $2). Frederick C. Davis, DEEP LAY THE DEAD (Doubleday Crime Club, $2) ★Agatha Christie, THE MOVING FINGER (Dodd Mead, $2). Miss Marple, the omniscient spinster, finds a new reason for poison-pen letters. Passable second string Christie. ※November 1, 1942 Jeffery Farnol, VALLEY OF NIGHT (Doubleday Doran, $2.50). Phoebe Atwood Taylor, THREE PLOTS FOR ASEY MAYO (Norton, $2). Philip Mechem, AND NOT FOR LOVE (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2) Robert Portner Koehler, HERE COME THE DEAD (Phoenix, $2). M.V. Heberden, MURDER MAKES A RACKET (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). W.T. Ballard, SAY YES TO MURDER (Putnam, $2). ※November 8, 1942 Dorothy Cameron Disney & George Sessions Perry, THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER (Random House, $2). John Spain [Cleve F. Adams], DIG ME A GRAVE (Dutton, $2). ★John Dickson Carr, THE EMPEROR’S SNUFF-BOX (Harper, $2). Dr. Dermot Kinross, criminal psychologist, clears a beautiful and suggestible woman of murder charges in pre-war France. Admirable characterization, precise plotting and a flawless surprise solution to bring you out of your chair. Walbridge McCully, DEATH RIDES TANDEM (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Vivian Connell, THE CHINESE ROOM (Dial Press, $2.50). ※November 15, 1942 No column was published this week. ※November 22, 1942 Craig Rice, THE SUNDAY PIGEON MURDERS (Simon & Schuster, $2). Kathleen Moore Knight, BELLS FOR THE DEAD (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Mignon G. Eberhart, WOLF IN MAN’S CLOTHING (Random House, $2). Charlotte Murray Russell, MURDER STEPS IN (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Frank Gruber, THE GIFT HORSE (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). ※November 29, 1942 Harriet Rutland, BLUE MURDER (Smith & Durrell, $2). H. Donald Spatz, DEATH ON THE NOSE (Phoenix, $2). Margaret Tayler Yates, DEATH BY THE YARD (Macmillan, $2). ※December 6, 1942 Ruth Fenisong, MURDER NEEDS A FACE (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, KILL JOY (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2). Katherine Wolffe, THE ATTIC ROOM (Morrow, $2). M. Scott Michel, THE X-RAY MURDERS (Coward-McCann, $2). Edith Howie, MURDER’S SO PERMANENT (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). Miles Burton [John Rhode], DEATH AT ASH HOUSE (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). ※December 13, 1942 Whitman Chambers, BRING ME ANOTHER MURDER (Dutton, $2). Ione Sandberg Schriber, A BODY FOR BILL (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). ※December 20, 1942 H.C. Branson, THE PRICKING THUMB (Simon & Schuster, $2). Charles L. Leonard [M.V. Heberden], THE STOLEN SQUADRON (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). H.F.S. Moore, MURDER GOES ROLLING ALONG (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Willetta Ann Barber & R.F. Schabelitz, MURDER ENTERS THE PICTURE (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Kerry O’Neil, DEATH AT DAKAR (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). ※December 27, 1942 No column was published this week. ※January 3, 1943 Jeune Inconnu [French for “an unknown young man”], THE MURDER OF ADMIRAL DARLAN (San Francisco Chronicle, $0.05 daily). Frances Crane, THE YELLOW VIOLET (Lippincott, $2). ※January 10, 1943 Lawrence Goldman, FALL GUY FOR MURDER (Dutton, $2). Richard Powell, DON’T CATCH ME (Simon & Schuster, $2). ★Erle Stanley Gardner, THE CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY (Morrow, $2). Frank Duryea, staid, sensible D.A. of Santa Delbarra, again finds his domestic and professional life disrupted by his wife’s incorrigible grandfather. Gramps Wiggins (remember THE CASE OF THE TURNING TIDE?) is as racily refreshing as ever, especially on the joys of plain cooking and fancy drinking, but the dull and simple case which he solves is worthy neither of him nor of his creator. ※January 17, 1943 Arthur W. Upfield, MURDER DOWN UNDER (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Charlotte Armstrong, THE CASE OF THE WEIRD SISTERS (CowardMcCann, $2). Garland Lord, MURDER PLAIN AND FANCY (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Louis Trimble, DATE FOR MURDER (Phoenix, $2). ※January 24, 1943 Elizabeth Daly, NOTHING CAN RESCUE ME (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). Baynard Kendrick, BLIND MAN’S BLUFF (Little Brown, $2). Anthony Abbot [Fulton Oursler], THE SHUDDERS (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). ※January 31, 1943 George Harmon Coxe, ALIAS THE DEAD (Knopf, $2). Van Siller, ECHO OF A BOMB (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Peter Cheyney, DARK DUET (Dodd Mead, $2). Melba Marlett, ANOTHER DAY TOWARD DYING (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Bernard Dougall, THE SINGING CORPSE (Dodd Mead, $2). Amelia Reynolds Long, MURDER TO TYPE (Phoenix, $2). ※February 7, 1943 ★Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr], SHE DIED A LADY (Morrow, $2). Suicide pact in 1940 England proves to be murder―if the murderer could have stood on thin air; the great H.M. [Sir Henry Merrivale] investigates, in a wheel chair and a Roman toga. Movingly human story woven around as pyrotechnically dazzling a plot as even Mr. Dickson has ever conceived. Collector’s item. Norbert Davis, THE MOUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN (Morrow, $2). Stewart Sterling, DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN (Putnam, $2). A.B. Cunningham, THE AFFAIR AT THE BOAT LANDING (Dutton, $2). Susannah Shane [Harriette Ashbrook], LADY IN A WEDDING DRESS (Dodd Mead, $2). Arthur M. Chase, PERIL AT THE SPY NEST (Dodd Mead, $2). ※February 14, 1943 Matthew Head, THE SMELL OF MONEY (Simon & Schuster, $2). Michael Venning [Craig Rice], MURDER THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Coward-McCann, $2). William Francis, BURY ME NOT (Morrow, $2). ※February 21, 1943 David Keith [Francis Steegmuller], A MATTER OF ACCENT (Dodd Mead, $2). Cornell Woolrich [William Irish/George Hopley], THE BLACK ANGEL (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). William Brandon, THE DANGEROUS DEAD (Dodd Mead, $2). Leslie Ford, SIREN IN THE NIGHT (Scribner, $2). Vera Kelsey, SATAN HAS SIX FINGERS (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Stanley Hopkins, Jr., MURDER BY INCHES (Harcourt Brace, $2). ※February 28, 1943 Mark Saxton, THE YEAR OF AUGUST (Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50). Chris Massie, THE GREEN CIRCLE (Random House, $2.50). Alice Tilton [Phoebe Atwood Taylor], FILE FOR RECORD (Norton, $2). Herman Petersen, THE D.A.’S DAUGHTER (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2). ※March 7, 1943 ★Vera Caspary, LAURA (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). Murdered woman comes to life as seen through [Alexander] Woollcott-like friend and the detective who finds himself falling in love with her image. Publishers call this a “psychothriller,” vile word, but meaning in this case a connoisseur’s item, for those who rejoice in [Raymond] Postgate, [Oscar] Wilde, or [Kenneth] Fearing. Subtle, sinister and swell. Hannah Lees & Lawrence Bachmann, DEATH IN THE DOLL’S HOUSE (Random House, $2). Dale Clark, FOCUS ON MURDER (Lippincott, $2). Lange Lewis, JULIET DIES TWICE (Bobbs-Merrill, $2). Jeanette Covert Nolan, FINAL APPEARANCE (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2). Lawrence Lariar, DEATH PAINTS THE PICTURE (Phoenix, $2). ※March 14, 1943 Hugh Addis, NIGHT OVER THE WOOD (Dodd Mead, $2). E.X. Ferrars, NECK IN A NOOSE (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Aaron Marc Stein, THE CASE OF THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Philip Wylie, CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES (Farrar & Rinehart, $2). Hulbert Footner, DEATH OF A SABOTEUR (Harper, $2). ※March 21, 1943 Timothy Fuller, THIS IS MURDER, MR. JONES (Atlantic-Little Brown, $2). Anthony Gilbert, DEATH IN THE BLACKOUT (Smith & Durrell, $2). Christopher Hale, MURDER IN TOW (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Mabel Seeley, ELEVEN CAME BACK (Doubleday Crime Club, $2). Jefferson Farjeon, MURDER AT A POLICE STATION (Bobbs-Merrill, $2). ※March 28, 1943 Robert Terrall, THEY DEAL IN DEATH (Simon & Schuster, $2). Giles Jackson [Dana Chambers], COURT OF SHADOWS (Dial Press, $2). R.A.J. Walling, A CORPSE BY ANY OTHER NAME (Morrow, $2). Ethel Lina White, PUT OUT THE LIGHT (Harper, $2). Ida Shurman, DEATH BEATS THE BAND (Phoenix, $2). |
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