最初に謎解きです。何故、タイトルが"Chance"なのか?それは、第51章でわかります。。。言いたいのは、がま---んしています。ちょっとヒント、それはね…Anthonyが絡んでます。
これまで集中して読んできたJames Patterson以外の探偵もので面白いものを探していたら、然る書店で見つけた。ハードボイルドで、まことにテンポのいい小説で、面白いし、この作者の他の作品を早く読みたくなりました。英語も多少スラングがありますが、基本的に平易です。
マフィアの親分Julius Venturaが娘Shirleyと共に,いなくなった亭主のAnthonyの行方把??しを依頼するところから始まった。相棒のマッチョのHawkとの掛け合いが面白いし, パートナーのSusanの幸せな生活が垣間見える。Las Vegasでの捜査劇、逮捕されたマフィアTony Marcusのショバを狙ってマフィアたちが暗躍する中で、Anthonyが闇金の横領をたくらんでいて、彼をそそのかしたMarty Anaheimが見えてくる。実は、Anthonyは、Shirley Venturaの夫でSpencerが探している人そのものである。その中で、Shirleyがrapeされた上で殺されてしまう。それからストーリーは、黒人、中国、ロシアマフィアが絡んできて、混沌として、事件の解決の糸口は見つかるのだが、なかなか解決しない。
最終章から2章目の第51章で鮮やかな事件解決となる。ここまでの物語の運びと、後の解決がすばらしかった。場所はラスベガス、Shirleyを殺したのはMartyであり、恨みを晴らすべく、殴り倒し上で警察に渡す。もう再起は不能だろう。AnthonyもJuliusに居所を知らせたので、生きていられないだろう。最後の第51章は、Susanとの幸せな一夜の話だが、その会話の中で、状況がわかるようになっている。
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菊池 光
(翻訳)
- 本の長さ421ページ
- 言語日本語
- 出版社早川書房
- 発売日2003/11/26
- ISBN-104150756813
- ISBN-13978-4150756819
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- 発売日 : 2003/11/26
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- 文庫 : 421ページ
- ISBN-10 : 4150756813
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2003年11月25日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
2021年2月3日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
誰かが失踪して、捜索に向かい、困難に直面し、活劇があって解決に至る、といういつものパターン。今回の舞台は、ラス・ヴェガス。この街の様子がよく書き込まれている。ホークとのコンビはしゃれていて可笑しみがあって、安定の一作です。
2005年9月15日に日本でレビュー済み
今回の舞台はラスヴェガス。ギャングの縄張り争いを背景にスペンサーとホークがクールに、熱く、闘う。
今回はわりとストレートな、王道を行くストーリー展開。おなじみの登場人物たちの会話も十分に堪能できる。ファンならいまさら述べる事もない、年1冊の定番。
今回はわりとストレートな、王道を行くストーリー展開。おなじみの登場人物たちの会話も十分に堪能できる。ファンならいまさら述べる事もない、年1冊の定番。
2012年2月24日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
裏の世界のを舞台にしたお話、ホークとヴぇガスへ向かうスペンサー。凶暴な男たちを相手に戦う二人ですが、あわやという時にどんでん返し、相変わらずスマートなスペンサーです。スーザンとの洒落た関係やスペンサーの料理(レシピ)も楽しんでます。storyもさる事ながら登場人物のキャラクターが面白い。
2008年8月30日に日本でレビュー済み
安心して読めるシリーズ。本当にはずれがありません。急な出張のお供に本シリーズは最高であります。
今回の舞台はラスベガス。スペンサーもホークも、もちろんスーザンも大活躍です。全てがエンターテイメント。全てがFUNの為に書かれているので、こちらの読書体験も深まります。楽しめます。男の生き方としてあこがれる部分が大ですが、ちょっと頑張れば手の届く処にあるスペンサーの男らしさ。ここが本シリーズの肝なのかも知れない。
今回の舞台はラスベガス。スペンサーもホークも、もちろんスーザンも大活躍です。全てがエンターテイメント。全てがFUNの為に書かれているので、こちらの読書体験も深まります。楽しめます。男の生き方としてあこがれる部分が大ですが、ちょっと頑張れば手の届く処にあるスペンサーの男らしさ。ここが本シリーズの肝なのかも知れない。
2006年4月28日に日本でレビュー済み
ボストンで起きた事件を解決するために今回はラスベガスへ向かうスペンサーとホーク.ボストンのギャンググループがそれぞれの利害を背景に入り混じり,ギャングの金を持ち逃げした男や,別のギャングと不倫するギャングの妻など,数多くの人物が登場.その中で絶妙な取引を成立させる最後の最後の展開は見もの.
2014年7月15日に日本でレビュー済み
Confusing plot,not enough depth in general
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Warren A. Lewis
5つ星のうち5.0
Drama in Vegas
2024年3月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Spenser is hired to find Anthony Meeker, the son-in-law of a mafia kingpin, one who really isn't worried about finding Meeker but wants to please his daughter. No one seems to have an idea why he would disappear, but the trail leads him to Las Vegas and the craziest wife swapping one could ever guess was going on in Boston's underworld. Great book.
Loren
5つ星のうち5.0
Another excellent Spenser novel
2020年4月9日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Just finished 're-reading this, and enjoyed it immensely, again. A good story, perhaps a bit too intricate, but with a good set of characters and, of course, lovely touches of humour.
p
5つ星のうち5.0
Multi-seeded from the history through Boston refrax.
2017年12月5日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Without the dust settling- I'll say this is one of the two best. It's length-isn't is in two parts. The author quotes Frost in appropriateness and others. Susan sees a doughnut shop and has a happy to-do with Spence in the Gym. There are funny moments in (Las) Vegas about its raison d'etre. Is this a good novel?: Does the Pope drive a Piaggio?
Esther Lelinowski
5つ星のうち4.0
clever
2023年10月21日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Enjoyed the book. It keeps you engaged from beginning to end.
Bobby Underwood
5つ星のうち4.0
Solid Spenser + Las Vegas
2018年3月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
“You staying around?” — Hawk
“Another day or so maybe, make sure I haven’t missed anything.” — Spenser
“Missed anything. We missed every *@#* thing there was to miss out here.” — Hawk
By the time Chance came around in the Spenser canon, which was just before Small Vices, readers’ expectations for the series had permanently shifted toward fast-flowing, enjoyable entertainment with some sparkling exchanges between Spenser and Hawk. Occasional echoes of earlier, more resonating books in the series still peppered some of the entries. Chance is one of the better books during that period, and a pretty fun read.
Like most Spenser novels, it begins swiftly. Well known Boston bad guy Julius Ventura walks into Spenser’s office with his pouty daughter Shirley. He doesn’t like Spenser, and doesn’t want to be there, but Shirley’s husband has run off — according to Ventura, but not his daughter. Shirley has Julius wrapped around her finger, though, so he wants Spenser to find Anthony and bring back his son-in-law. Since Julius is the kind of guy who has people of his own for that sort of thing, Spenser smells a rat. Learning Julius approached Hawk first, who said he’d only do it if Spenser would, there is no doubt something is up — or Hawk’s just amusing himself.
It proves to be both. Gino Fish had something going with Julius, because his close associate, Marty Anaheim, is having Spenser tailed. Figuring money is involved, it stands to reason Anthony might have skipped with someone’s, but whose? Finding out isn’t going to be easy, for two reasons. Vinnie, sans Joe Broz, is now working for Gino. And Marty Anaheim? Hawk sums him up:
“Marty Anaheim is the meanest man I ever knew. He lost his hands, he’d bite you to death.”
Anthony was fooling around on Shirley too, which doesn’t surprise Spenser in the least, once he has lunch with her. But Dixie does, and later on provides a sad and poignant moment in the narrative. It seems Anthony not only liked to gamble, but had a “system” he planned on using to break the bank — don’t they all? So suddenly we get Viva Las Vegas, Parker style, with Spenser, Hawk, and Susan — who should have been left at home — in Sin City. Actually, Susan isn’t quite as annoying in this one, but there’s still too much of her and not enough detection.
This one introduces the tough little Panama hat-wearing Bernard, who is tailing them around town while they look for Anthony and enjoy being is Vegas. Well, mostly it’s Susan enjoying it, until she has to bug out, and let the story get going. Spenser does find Anthony, but then what? Marty Anaheim shows up, and Anthony is scared to death. It gets a bit confusing from there on out, with one glaringly exception. When Shirley’s body shows up in Vegas, naked and beaten and raped, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out it doesn’t fit Anthony’s profile, though he certainly had motive. It does, however, fit someone else, and for the life of me, every time I’ve read this over the years I’ve always wondered why it takes so long for Spenser to decide it was that person.
It’s so easy to connect the dots I’m not even going to mark it as a spoiler that Anthony has run off not only with someone’s money, but someone’s wife. Bibi and Dixie are in fact the two best characters in the book, and provide some touching moments. Spenser is Spenser, and even though he and Hawk have solved diddly, he keeps poking around, dissatisfied with not knowing what happened. Someone takes a run at Spenser, and he puts two of them down. So much for poking around where you aren’t wanted.
Eddie Lee from Port City — an earlier entry in the series — gives Spenser a hint at what’s really going on, and it turns out our boy Spenser may be to blame, because when Tony Marcus got put away, it left a vacuum, and some Russians want to move in. That leads Spenser to Joe Broz, a shadow of his former self but still in business. And Jackie the chauffeur for Julius has clued Spenser in on another angle. That confuses matters, though.
Chance is a quick, entertaining read, as every Spenser novel is, but it’s a little disjointed at times. Still, it has some nice exchanges between Hawk and Spenser, Susan isn’t overly irritating here, and there’s a really nice ending which makes the opening prolog all the more poignant. All in all, Chance is well worth your time if you’re looking for a fun read in this genre which will keep you turning pages. For a Spenser from this period in the series, a solid four stars.
“Another day or so maybe, make sure I haven’t missed anything.” — Spenser
“Missed anything. We missed every *@#* thing there was to miss out here.” — Hawk
By the time Chance came around in the Spenser canon, which was just before Small Vices, readers’ expectations for the series had permanently shifted toward fast-flowing, enjoyable entertainment with some sparkling exchanges between Spenser and Hawk. Occasional echoes of earlier, more resonating books in the series still peppered some of the entries. Chance is one of the better books during that period, and a pretty fun read.
Like most Spenser novels, it begins swiftly. Well known Boston bad guy Julius Ventura walks into Spenser’s office with his pouty daughter Shirley. He doesn’t like Spenser, and doesn’t want to be there, but Shirley’s husband has run off — according to Ventura, but not his daughter. Shirley has Julius wrapped around her finger, though, so he wants Spenser to find Anthony and bring back his son-in-law. Since Julius is the kind of guy who has people of his own for that sort of thing, Spenser smells a rat. Learning Julius approached Hawk first, who said he’d only do it if Spenser would, there is no doubt something is up — or Hawk’s just amusing himself.
It proves to be both. Gino Fish had something going with Julius, because his close associate, Marty Anaheim, is having Spenser tailed. Figuring money is involved, it stands to reason Anthony might have skipped with someone’s, but whose? Finding out isn’t going to be easy, for two reasons. Vinnie, sans Joe Broz, is now working for Gino. And Marty Anaheim? Hawk sums him up:
“Marty Anaheim is the meanest man I ever knew. He lost his hands, he’d bite you to death.”
Anthony was fooling around on Shirley too, which doesn’t surprise Spenser in the least, once he has lunch with her. But Dixie does, and later on provides a sad and poignant moment in the narrative. It seems Anthony not only liked to gamble, but had a “system” he planned on using to break the bank — don’t they all? So suddenly we get Viva Las Vegas, Parker style, with Spenser, Hawk, and Susan — who should have been left at home — in Sin City. Actually, Susan isn’t quite as annoying in this one, but there’s still too much of her and not enough detection.
This one introduces the tough little Panama hat-wearing Bernard, who is tailing them around town while they look for Anthony and enjoy being is Vegas. Well, mostly it’s Susan enjoying it, until she has to bug out, and let the story get going. Spenser does find Anthony, but then what? Marty Anaheim shows up, and Anthony is scared to death. It gets a bit confusing from there on out, with one glaringly exception. When Shirley’s body shows up in Vegas, naked and beaten and raped, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out it doesn’t fit Anthony’s profile, though he certainly had motive. It does, however, fit someone else, and for the life of me, every time I’ve read this over the years I’ve always wondered why it takes so long for Spenser to decide it was that person.
It’s so easy to connect the dots I’m not even going to mark it as a spoiler that Anthony has run off not only with someone’s money, but someone’s wife. Bibi and Dixie are in fact the two best characters in the book, and provide some touching moments. Spenser is Spenser, and even though he and Hawk have solved diddly, he keeps poking around, dissatisfied with not knowing what happened. Someone takes a run at Spenser, and he puts two of them down. So much for poking around where you aren’t wanted.
Eddie Lee from Port City — an earlier entry in the series — gives Spenser a hint at what’s really going on, and it turns out our boy Spenser may be to blame, because when Tony Marcus got put away, it left a vacuum, and some Russians want to move in. That leads Spenser to Joe Broz, a shadow of his former self but still in business. And Jackie the chauffeur for Julius has clued Spenser in on another angle. That confuses matters, though.
Chance is a quick, entertaining read, as every Spenser novel is, but it’s a little disjointed at times. Still, it has some nice exchanges between Hawk and Spenser, Susan isn’t overly irritating here, and there’s a really nice ending which makes the opening prolog all the more poignant. All in all, Chance is well worth your time if you’re looking for a fun read in this genre which will keep you turning pages. For a Spenser from this period in the series, a solid four stars.