2013年03月16日の私のお勧め The Children Set at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, "The Children" was the lead story in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine's 70th Anniversary issue (September/October 2011).
From "The Children": "The death wagon had turned onto her street. Ella knew, from nights watching through the attic window, that two men in rubber boots would climb from the wagon's benchlike seat. As their horses stomped and fussed, they'd bend over her. From above, she'd look like a rolled carpet or bundle of bedding. Each would pick up one end, then they'd stagger to the open back of the wagon. With a practiced swing or two, they'd hoist her onto the stack. Men had been doing this since the middle ages. And how was 1918 different than 1318? People were dragged away to prison for speaking against their ruler, thanks to the Sedition Act. Girls were burned alive, not at the stake but in locked shirtwaist factories. Men were tortured and lynched by mobs, not of peasants but of Klansmen. The poor fought wars so the rich could divide the spoils. And again, the streets rattled with wagons full of pestilent corpses."
The novella Champawat, a sequel picking up three days after "The Children" ends, was in Ellery Queen's September/October 2012 issue. It is now available as an e-book. 「記事引用」 2013年03月16日 04時 土曜日feat. D.O リローデッド 続き＞＞
