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Housemaid Jane Bee's summer duties run to dusting the props for a week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, the Queen's favorite haunt. But the Investiture of the new Knights of the Garter ends up combining pomp with a extremely unpleasant circumstance.... Mild-mannered art curator Roger Pettibon is found dead, a ceremonial sword in his back and a Royal Garter around his knee.
The police are quick to arrest moody Court painter Victor Fabiani, at work on a portrait of the regal face that launched a billion postage stamps. But Fabiani's confession--despite its story of art forgery and blackmail--doesn't ring true to Jane. Nor to Her Majesty, who dispatches her on a discreet inquiry among the cream of society gathered for the Ascot races. And, as Jane traces the twisty lineage of more than one family, Windsor's ancient battlements witness a second death--and their second ordeal in five years, by fire and water....
The police are quick to arrest moody Court painter Victor Fabiani, at work on a portrait of the regal face that launched a billion postage stamps. But Fabiani's confession--despite its story of art forgery and blackmail--doesn't ring true to Jane. Nor to Her Majesty, who dispatches her on a discreet inquiry among the cream of society gathered for the Ascot races. And, as Jane traces the twisty lineage of more than one family, Windsor's ancient battlements witness a second death--and their second ordeal in five years, by fire and water....
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Industrious housemaid Jane Bee is at it again in this third novel in a series featuring Her Majesty the Queen as a very polite inquisitor in deaths that are not what they seem in the various royal houses. C.C. Benison has set up the novels so that Jane Bee, a Canadian college student working for the royal family as a lark, ostensibly serves as Watson to the Queen's Sherlock. However, Jane is much quicker off the mark than Watson ever was, and the Queen, old dear that she is, is not quite as prescient as Holmes; yet, the Font of All Justice is just as believably steely-eyed in the pursuit of truth.
In this instance, Ascot Week at Windsor provides the setting, and Jane sets out to find who was rude enough to slaughter royal curator Roger Pettibon in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle. Strawberries, glamorous hats, and Eton schoolboys all play a role in helping Jane solve the crime. Benison's strength is her ear for Britspeak and the occasional hilarious aside in how the English amuse themselves with the summer onslaught of foreign tourists. (The Queen's footman, whose primary responsibility is looking after the Corgis, admits to one heat-flushed Southerner that a footman, of course, takes care of the royal family's feet.) At times, though, Jane has the grace of a bull in a china shop, or, more accurately, a North American abroad. And, Benison could make better use of minor characters, such as the chip-slinging single mother whose daughter gives Jane the clue she needs to solve the crime. They are often whisked away before the reader can appreciate their subtleties or contradictions. Still, Benison's efforts are solid enough and Death at Windsor Palace makes a nice addition to her series. --K.A. Crouch
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タイトルどおり、英国ウィンザー城での殺人事件です。
ミステリーとしてもおもしろいのですが、王室スタッフの日常生活や
女王の生活、ウィンザー城の行事の裏側の様子等がうかがえて、
興味深いです。
スタッフとして働く若い普通の女の子の一人称で綴られるので、
英語もそう難しくなく、読みやすいと思います。
ミステリーとしてもおもしろいのですが、王室スタッフの日常生活や
女王の生活、ウィンザー城の行事の裏側の様子等がうかがえて、
興味深いです。
スタッフとして働く若い普通の女の子の一人称で綴られるので、
英語もそう難しくなく、読みやすいと思います。
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:マスマーケット
タイトルには英国女王が捜査をするとありますが、実は主人公はカナダ人で王室のメイドをしている女性です。
王室の行事やお城など、かなり詳しく語られており楽しいです。作者はイギリス人ではなく、
カナダ人の新聞記者（男性）です。
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王室の行事やお城など、かなり詳しく語られており楽しいです。作者はイギリス人ではなく、
カナダ人の新聞記者（男性）です。
残念ながらこの３作目以降、続編は出版されておりません。早く続きが読みたくなるような作品です。
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17 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
God Love the Queen!
2000/3/10
形式:マスマーケット
Jane Bee, a Canadian serving as housemaid in the Royal Household, assists THE QUEEN in solving these terribly inconvenient murders. Jane's father is a cop, so she comes by her detective skills naturally. All three "Death at . . ." books are a hoot. I consider them comic cozies, my favorite mystery genre.
8 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Jane's royal antics!
1999/3/18
形式:マスマーケット
I read my first adventures of Bee when she was doing her thing at Sandringham and have enjoyed everyone of them. I not only enjoy her, but every character who works "on staff." I am wondering what the Brits think of her, but they would probably dismiss her as a cheeky Canadian! I hope Jane will continue her royal duties for sometime to come. Her adventures couldn't be more fun and more interesting.
7 人中、7人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Murder most royal
2001/12/27
形式:マスマーケット
I love the C.C. Benison stories. For those of you who are royalists or at least interested in the British royal family, you can't beat these tales for an inside scoop of life at court. Whomever Mr/Ms Benison is, he/she knows a lot about the royals and spins her tales with fabulous details and humor.
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