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''The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World'' (2007) is a middle-age or young-adult novel by E.L. Konigsburg. It is a kind of detective story and some reviews present it as mystery fiction. Amedeo Kaplan is both new boy and rich boy in the sixth grade. He longs to discover something "no one" yet knows. He volunteers to help liquidate the portable property of an elderly woman who once sang opera in Europe and finds himself learning more about degenerate art and the German occupation of the Netherlands. ''The Mysterious Edge'' is a kind of sequel to ''The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place'' (2004). Margaret Kane's two executive allies in ''The Outcasts'' are Amedeo Kaplan's godfather and mother here, about fifteen years later, and Vanderwaal family history is one aspect of ''The Mysterious Edge''. ==Setting== ''Mysterious Edge'' is set in the present and primarily in the private residential part of St. Malo, Florida, a fictional navy town. One secondary setting is the art center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, directed by Peter Vanderwaal. Backstory events occurred in Amsterdam, Vienna, and Epiphany, New York —the fictional city in Greater New York where the Bevilacquas, Roses, and Vanderwaals all lived at 17 to 21 Schuyler Place for a decade or two after World War II. ''The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place'' (2004) itself provides some backstory for ''The Mysterious Edge''. Epiphany, New York, is the primary setting for two other novels, ''The View from Saturday'' and ''Silent to the Bone''. 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 Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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