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''The Ministry of Fear'' is a 1943 novel written by Graham Greene. It was first published in Britain by William Heinemann. It was made into the 1944 film ''Ministry of Fear'', directed by Fritz Lang and starring Ray Milland. == Plot summary == During the Blitz. Arthur Rowe attends a charity fête. There, a fortune-teller tells him the answer to the ‘guess the weight of the cake’ competition, enabling Rowe to win it. As he leaves, the organisers try to take the cake back, saying there’s been a mistake, but Rowe refuses. The next day, a man offers Rowe money for the cake, and then tries to poison him, but an air raid bomb hits the house, knocking them both out. Worried, Rowe hires a private detective and goes to the charity who ran the fête. At the charity, he meets Anna and Willi Hilfe, Austrian refugees. Willi goes with Rowe to the fortune-teller’s home. There, they join in a séance, during which a man is murdered with Rowe’s knife. Rowe escapes before the police arrive. Rowe contemplates suicide, but meets a man who asks him to take some books to a hotel. At the hotel he meets Anna and a bomb in the case explodes. When Rowe regains consciousness, he has amnesia. The nurses tell him his name is Richard Digby, but Anna visits and calls him ‘Arthur’. Rowe starts to fall in love with Anna. Rowe escapes from the sanatorium, returns to London, and goes to the police. The police tell him that the man who Rowe thought murdered isn’t dead, and the cake had a microfilm of secret plans hidden in it. They take him to a tailor’s shop where he identifies the man he thought dead. Before they can question the man, he kills himself. After the police round up most of the spy-ring, Rowe calls the telephone number that the tailor called before killing himself, and Anna answers. Rowe goes to the flat and finds out that Willi is the head of the spy ring. Willi escapes but, cornered by Rowe, commits suicide. Rowe return to Anna.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://graemeshimmin.com/ministry-of-fear-book-review// )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Ministry of Fear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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