The Murder of Ackroyd

…Since her debut work, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), she has published many novels, short stories, and plays, and has been loved by readers all over the world, earning her the title of “Queen of Mysteries.” Since her debut work, her representative works, such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), feature the Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot, but other popular works include The Murder at the Parsonage (1930), in which Miss Marple, an old woman living in a typical English rural village, plays the role of an amateur detective. The play The Mousetrap, which she wrote based on one of her own short stories, has had a record-breaking run since its London premiere in 1952, and many of her works have been made into films. …

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…処女作《スタイルズ荘の怪事件》(1920)以来，多数の長編･短編小説，戯曲を発表，世界中の読者から愛され，〈ミステリーの女王〉という名で知られた。処女作以来，《アクロイド殺害事件》(1926)などの代表作では，ベルギー生れのエルキュール･ポアロ探偵が登場するが，イギリスの典型的な田舎の小村に住む老女，ミス･マープルがしろうと探偵として活躍する《牧師館の殺人》(1930)などの作品も人気がある。自分の短編を基に書いた戯曲《ねずみとり》は52年ロンドン初演以来記録的ロングランを続け，彼女の多くの作品は映画化された。…

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