Kutsu Ni Sumu Roba / Original Title: THERE WAS an OLD WOMAN (Hayakawa Mystery Bunko HM 2-56)

[Machine Translation] Cornelia, the head of the Potts family, a successful shoemaker, has six children. Three of her predecessor's children were eccentric, and three of her current husband's children were decent, but were mistreated by Cornelia. One day, the eldest son challenges his half-brother to a duel, claiming that he has been defamed. Asked to be a bridesmaid, Ellery devises a plan to avert tragedy. But this is only the beginning of a horrifying series of nursery rhyme murders in which madness and sanity intersect. A new translation of the masterpiece of the middle period of the master of the real mystery.

製靴業で成功したポッツ家の当主コーネリアには子供が6人いる。先夫の子3人は変人ぞろい、現夫の子3人はまともだがコーネリアによって虐げられていた。ある日名誉毀損されたと長男が異父弟に決闘を申し込んだ。介添人を頼まれたエラリイは悲劇を回避するため一計を案じる。だがそれは、狂気と正気が交錯する恐るべき連続童謡殺人の端緒に過ぎなかった。本格ミステリの巨匠、中期の代表作が新訳で登場。