怪盗小説の先駆け的作家
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| 本名 | Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen | ||||
| 出身地 | イギリス(カナダ、オンタリオ州キングストン生まれ) | ||||
| 学歴 | バーミンガム大学を経てオックスフォード大学卒 | ||||
| 生没 | 1848年〜1899年 | ||||
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| シリーズ探偵 | クレイ大佐 (Colonel Clay) ミス・ロイス・ケイリー嬢 (Miss Lois Cayley) 美人看護婦ヒルダ・ウェイド (Hilda Wade) |
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| 代表作 | 【クレイ大佐】 「アフリカの百万長者」(短編集) 【その他】 「Miss Cayley's Adventures(ケイリーの冒険)」 「A Woman with Great Tenacity of Purpose(ヒルダ・ウェイド)」 「The Woman Who Did」「The British Barbarians」 |
| No. | 事件名 | 発表年 | 邦訳 | 備考 | |
| 1 | Miss Cayley's Adventures (ケイリーの冒険) |
1899 | - | ||
| 1 | The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady | 1898 | - | ||
| 2 | The Adventure of the Supercilious Attache | - | |||
| 3 | The Adventure of the Inquisitive American | - | |||
| 4 | The Adventure of the Amateur Commission Agent | - | |||
| 5 | The Adventure of the Impromptu Mountaineer | - | |||
| 6 | The Adventure of the Urbane Old Gentleman | - | |||
| 7 | The Adventure of the Unobtrusive Oasis | - | |||
| 8 | The Adventure of the Pea-Green Patrician | - | |||
| 9 | The Adventure of the Magnificent Maharajah | - | |||
| 10 | The Adventure of the Cross-Eyed QC | - | |||
| 11 | The Adventure of the Oriental Attendant | 1899 | - | ||
| 12 | The Adventure of the Unprofessional Detective | - | |||
| No. | 事件名 | 発表年 | 邦訳 | 備考 | |
| 1 | A Woman with Great Tenacity of Purpose (ヒルダ・ウェイド) |
1900 | - | 没後出版、友人であったコナン・ドイルの手により完成 | |
| 1 | The Episode of the Patient Who Disappointed Her Doctor | 1899 | - | ||
| 2 | The Episode of the Gentleman Who Had Failed for Everything | - | |||
| 3 | The Episode of the Wife Who Did Her Duty | - | |||
| 4 | The Episode of the Man Who Would Not Commit Suicide | - | |||
| 5 | The Episode of the Needle That Did Not Match | - | |||
| 6 | The Episode of the Letter With a Basingstoke Post-Mark | - | |||
| 7 | The Episode of the Stone That Looked About It | - | |||
| 8 | The Episode of the European with a Kaffir Heart | - | |||
| 9 | The Episode of the Lady Who Was Very Exclusive | - | |||
| 10 | The Episode of the Guide Who Knew the Country | - | |||
| 11 | The Episode of the Officer Who Understood Perfectly | 1900 | - | ||
| 12 | The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke | - | |||
| No. | 事件名 | 発表年 | 邦訳 | 備考 |
| 1 | In All Shades | 1886 | - | |
| 2 | The Devil's Die | 1888 | - | |
| 3 | This Mortal Coil | - | ||
| 4 | The Tents of Shem | 1889 | - | |
| 5 | The Jaws of Death | - | ||
| 6 | The Novel of Character | 1890 | - | |
| 7 | Dumaresq's Daughter | 1891 | - | |
| 8 | What's Bred in the Bone? | - | ||
| 9 | A Lone Land Bride | 1892 | - | |
| 10 | Fiction and Mrs Grundy | - | ||
| 11 | At Market Value | 1894 | - | |
| 12 | Under Sealed Orders | - | ||
| 13 | The Woman Who Did | 1895 | - | |
| 14 | The British Barbarians | - | SF | |
| 15 | Novels Without a Purpose | 1896 | - | |
| 16 | The Incidental Bishop | 1898 | - |
| No. | 事件名 | 発表年 | 邦訳 | 備考 |
| 1 | The Thames Valley Catastrophe テムズ・ヴァレイの大災害 |
1897 | ちくま文庫「ヴィクトリア朝空想科学小説」('94) | |
| 2 | Wolverden Tower ウルヴァーデンの塔 |
1899 | 創元文庫555-1「怪談の悦び」 新潮文庫「クリスマス13の戦慄」 |
【参考】「シャーロック・ホームズのライヴァルたち1」(早川書房 ハヤカワミステリ文庫)
「EQ1983年3月号(第32号)」(光文社)
「ハヤカワ・ミステリマガジン1977年6月号」(早川書房)
海外サイト「THE GRANT ALLEN WEBSITE」様