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CWAヒストリカル・ダガー受賞&第1位「このミステリーがすごい! 2005年版」海外編ベスト10

19世紀半ばのロンドン。17歳になる孤児スウは、下町の故買屋の家に暮らしていた。ある冬の晩、彼女のもとに顔見知りの詐欺師がやってくる。さる貴族の息子というふれこみで、〈紳士〉とあだ名されている、以前スウの掏摸の腕前を借りにきたこともあった男だ。彼はスウにある計画を持ちかける。とある令嬢をたぶらかして結婚し、その巨額の財産をそっくりいただこうというのだ。スウの役割は、令嬢の新しい侍女。スウはためらいながらも、話にのることにするのだが……。


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434 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 23, 2004

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Sarah Waters

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Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.

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