The Secret of the Night Train 夜行列車の秘密

シルヴィア・ビショップは今までに3冊の本を著しています。The Bookshop Girlは最近（2019年2月）邦訳されました。主人公の名前は英語でProperty Jonesで、邦題は「モノ・ジョーンズとからくり本屋」。翻訳者の工夫がうかがえます。

ここで紹介するのは2018年刊行の3冊目The Secret of the Night Trainです。

M（11歳）の感想：

This story, I met, when I first started reading Sylvia Bishop's books. The first one I read was "The Bookshop Girl". I liked the book so much that I searched the Internet for other books by Sylvia Bishop, and I found this book: The Secret of the Night Train. 

Mysterious and fabulous. A great story of Max and her detective skills, that try to unravel the diamond thief. The diamond is preciouse, and costs a ton of money, and most of all, it is very small. The thief can hide it anywhere. Max is a eleven year old girl. She lives in Paris, and every day is the same normal day, but when her great aunt calls, and says that she needs someone to stay with her, because of her sickness, Max is thrilled to go. But on the train trip to Istanbul, where her great aunt lives, she discovers that on her train, there is a thief, who has a special diamond called the "Heart Break". Max uses her detective skills, and the help from people she can rely on, on the train, and unravels the mysterious diamond thief.

I very much liked this book, because this is a mystery book. I love mystery books, and I have read a lot, murder mysteries, kidnapping, thiefs and robbers. But this, is one of the best I've ever read. Not only there is a thief, a nun, that was actually a commandant, and a eleven year old detective, but there is a handfull of suspects. None of them are safe from suspicion. Not even a man that was, like most people sometimes do, about to miss his train.

The Secret of the Night Train

Author: Sylvia Bishop

Illustration: Marco Guadalupi

夜行列車の秘密

著：シルヴィア・ビショップ

絵：マルコ・グアダルーピ

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