ミステリー私も好きです。
ただ、翻訳ものは説明がくどくてちょっと苦手・・
***********************
数藤（すどう）康雄さん（７９）は大学院生のとき、その名作で使われている機器に納得がいかなかった。
Yasuo Sudo, 79, a resident of Mitaka in western Tokyo, was a graduate student when he read this masterpiece but could not figure out the function of a gadget that was crucial to the plot.
思い切って作者であるアガサ・クリスティー本人に手紙で問い合わせる。
Sudo plucked up his courage to ask the author herself in a letter.
まさかの返信が届いたのは１カ月後。文通が始まった
To his great surprise, he received Christie's reply one month later. They started corresponding.
６年後、会社員になった数藤さんに作家から招待状が届く。
Six years after the first exchange, Sudo was working for a company when he received a letter of invitation from her.
キツネにつままれたような気分で英国へ。別荘で会った第一印象は小柄なおばあちゃん。
Baffled as he was, he accepted and headed to Britain.
Christie received him at her holiday cottage. "A small old lady" was his first impression of her.
「お茶や夕食をいただきながら、無我夢中で話した。夢の２日間でした」
"I was rapt as I chatted away over tea and supper," Sudo recalled. "The two days with her were like a dream."
ピンと立った口ひげの名探偵ポアロをひっさげ、クリスティーが作家デビューして今年で１００年。
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Christie's literary debut as the creator of Hercule Poirot, the iconic sleuth with an enormous, upward-curled mustache.
『そして誰もいなくなった』『オリエント急行の殺人』など多彩な作品は世界各国で読みつがれ、いまも色あせない
Her versatile works, including "And Then There Were None" and "Murder on the Orient Express," are still read around the world today as timeless classics.
自伝を読むと、自由奔放な生き方にも引き込まれる。
Her autobiography details her freewheeling lifestyle, which in itself fascinates me.
将校と駆け落ち同然で結婚するが、失踪事件を起こす。
She practically eloped with a British military officer, but left him and went into hiding after more than a dozen years of marriage.
再婚相手は旅先で出会った１４歳下の考古学者。
She then remarried an archaeologist, 14 years her junior, whom she met while travelling.
「後戻りはできない、人生は一方通行なのだから」。作中の台詞（せりふ）にミステリーの女王の思いがにじむ
She wrote in one of her works, "One can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back ... Life is really a One Way Street." This must have come from the very heart of this "Queen of Mysteries."