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#009 Brought to Bay / James M'Govan (1878)
追いつめられて / ジェームズ・マガヴァン
- A friendly lift
- Left her home
- M'Sweeny among body-snatchers
- Mistaken identity
- A poacher's grudge
- Trapped at last
- Spirit Nelly's mission
- Playing on a piano case
- Sparrow's fight to be honest
- Poor Peep, the cracksman's dog
- A man-coquette
- Billy and me
- M'Sweeny and his ghost
- Traced by a book
- A woman's revenge
- Wee Punch, the dog-detective
- The ghost of the ring
- The story of a bullet
- Card-sharpers sharped
- A mother's love
- The magic portmanteaus
- Ragamuffin Joe
- Tracking a child-stealer
- M'Sweeny among smugglers
- A drunkard's last bout
- Bessie, the orange girl
- Garrotted to order
- The romance of a watch
- M'Sweeny and two tigresses
- A drunken thief
James M'Govan は Waters のものと同じく刑事の回想録。したがってM'Govanは主役の刑事の名前であり、作者のペンネームでもある。本名 William Crawford Honeyman. しかしまぁ M'Govan もの以外に特に記録が見当たらない。ここ に多少解説がある。
日本語訳はもちろんなし。
どうも当時はかなりの人気があったらしく、EQの「クイーンの定員」の註には全部で6冊の単行本が出たとの記述がある。でも調査した範囲ではもう少し多い。
"Brought to Bay; or Experience of a City Detective" (1878)
"Strange Clues; or Chronicles of a City Detective" (1881)
"Hunted Down; or Recollections of a City Detective" (1882)
"One of the Force; or Trials of a City Detective"(1883)
"Traced and Tracked; or Memoirs of a City Detective" (1884)
"Solved Mysteries; or Revelations of a City Detective" (1888)
"Criminals Caught; or Records of a City Detective" (1921)
"The Invisible Pickpocket; or Records of a City Detective" (1922)
(年度は結構いい加減かも。)
"Brought to Bay; or Experience of a City Detective" (1878)
"Strange Clues; or Chronicles of a City Detective" (1881)
"Hunted Down; or Recollections of a City Detective" (1882)
"One of the Force; or Trials of a City Detective"(1883)
"Traced and Tracked; or Memoirs of a City Detective" (1884)
"Solved Mysteries; or Revelations of a City Detective" (1888)
"Criminals Caught; or Records of a City Detective" (1921)
"The Invisible Pickpocket; or Records of a City Detective" (1922)
(年度は結構いい加減かも。)
出版年が 1878-88年の10年間と 1921-22年の2期に分かれているが、作者が1919年に亡くなったらしく、それを契機にもう一度盛り上がったのだろう。1920年代には19世紀の本も別の出版社から再販されている。なお Criminals Caught の内容は、それ以前に刊行されたものの採録がほとんどであり、作者の死後に編纂された傑作集と思われる。一方 The Invisible Pickpocket には収録作の重複はない。Criminals Caught が好評だったので、単行本未収録の短編を集めてもう一度作ったのだろう。One of the Force は内容未確認だが、これだけ出版元がNewYorkなので英国版を元に独自に編纂したものと思われる。と、いうわけで、実質6冊、という見方もできますね。
ここでは "Hunted Down" に収録されている The veiled portrait が読めます。これ以外ではオンラインで読めるものは見つかりませんでした。
それにしてもM'Govanという名前の表記はあまり見かけた記憶がない。"マガヴァン"は光文社文庫版『クイーンの定員』での表記だが、EQの連載では"マクゴヴァン"としている。ためしに McGovan で検索すると... でてきた。
なんとUKで2003年に復刻されている。これはちょっと読みたい気もするが...正直原書に挑戦してまで読みたいかと言われれば微妙。とりあえず紹介のみ。直接確認したわけではないが、Strange Clues, Traced and Tracked, The Invisible Pickpocket からの再録らしい。
んー、ところでなんで「追いつめられて」という邦題が付いたのでしょうか?まさか邦訳されたことがある?
せっかくなので、収録作一覧を。(Brought to Bay は上述の通り。)
- Hunted Down
- Hunted down
- A thief trapping a thief
- Hunting down a lobby stripper
- The veiled portrait
- M'Sweeny and the lost poodle
- The power of kindness
- Repaying a child stripper
- A friend in need
- A romance of the North Bridge
- The Ruffian at bay
- The curse of sin
- A fight against forgery
- M'Sweeny at a wake
- A false will
- The song of the shirt
- Diamond cut diamond
- A spot of blood
- The Horse Wynd fire
- A poor girl's trials
- A railway leap
- A street waif's honesty
- A child's power
- Buried alive
- Run to earth
- A sacred trust
- Loaded with a legacy
- Blind Martha, the message girl
- Strange Clues
- Copital!
- A harvest mystery
- The square-toed bluchers
- Little Liz's locket
- A cracksman's ruse
- A waif of the gutter
- A silver-plated button
- Bonnie Bell, the machinist
- Spirit rappers
- Unclaimed money
- Larks!
- The blood-stone ring
- The wife-killer
- Self executioners
- Aileen O'Reilly's task
- Needle Nip's strange record
- A spider's web
- An unburied burglar
- Caught in a grey coat
- The cam'-staned door step
- The missing tools
- An old score
- An expensive prescription
- Dead beat, an incident of the bank failure
- A splutter of ink
- A woman's love
- Born to crime
- A house with crimson blinds
- The diamond-ringed apprentice
- The umbrella mender's quest
- Traced and Tracked
- A pedestrian's plot
- Billy's bite
- The murdered tailor's watch
- The street porter's son
- A bit of tobacco pipe
- The broken cairngorm
- The romance of a real Cremona
- The spider and the spider-killer
- The spoilt photograph
- The stolen dowry
- M'Sweeny and the magic jewels
- Benjie Blunt's clever alibi
- Jim Hutson's knife
- The herring scales
- One less to eat
- The captain's chronometer
- The torn tartan shawl
- A lift on the road
- The organ-grinder's money-bag
- The Berwick burr
- The wrong umbrella
- A white savage
- The broken missionary
- A murderer's mistake
- A house-breaker's wife
- M'Sweeny and the chimney-sweep
- The family Bible
- Conscience money
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- Solved Mysteries
- Jemmy Twitcher's patent suicide
- Meg and Jess
- A lithographer's temptation
- The burglar's ghost
- The marked cash-bag
- M'Sweeny and the sheep stealers
- The eight o'clock bell
- A midnight assassin
- The tea-pot knob
- The machinist's engagement ring
- M'Sweeny as a burglar
- Billy's father
- The shuttered shop
- The simple Highlandman
- M'Sweeny and the shebeener
- The borrowed funeral hat
- The invisible sheep-worrier
- The lime-stained umbrella
- The drover's bank-notes
- Poisoned sugar
- M'Sweeny and the lost lever
- The lost receipt
- A small bread-stealer
- The anchor ear-rings
- The missing bookfolder
- A dog-stealer's prize
- The turner's hide
- M'Sweeny and his valentine
- A box of treasure
- The policeman's boots
- The stopped watch
- Criminals Caught
- The simple Highlandman
- The marked cash bag
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- The eight o'clock bell
- The Berwick burr
- Poisoned sugar
- One less to eat
- An old score
- The stolen dowry
- Spirit Nelly's mission
- A man coquette
- The umbrella mender's quest
- Bonnie Bell, the machinist
- A drunkard's last bout
- Bessie, the orange girl
- The romance of a watch
- A drunken thief
- A poor girl's trials
- Traced by a book
- Blind Martha, the message girl
- The curse of sin
- Repaying a child stripper
- A harvest mystery
- Billy's father
- The Invisible Pickpocket
- M'Sweeny and the dodging debtor
- Jimsie, the horse detective
- The invisible pickpocket
- M'Sweeny and the footpad
- The mysterious G
- Running down a bicycle thief
- Shot in the dark
- Devilclaws
- The mysterious human leg
- M'Sweeny and the prize-fighter
- A pedler's revenge
- M'Sweeny and the jealous husband
- A feeble old lady
- Checkmating a monster
- Poisoning a witness
- The chronicle of a chair
- A trail of blood
- The amateur burglars
- Lost in a madhouse
- A servant's heavy trunk