忙しい花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #1

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

この物語のヒロイン、塚川亜由美。私立大の文学部に通う二年生、少々あわてんぼうの19歳の娘である。彼女はクラブ活動の先輩・田村の結婚披露宴に招かれたが、どうも様子がおかしいのだ。花婿の田村は暗い顔をしているし、その上、当の田村が「そっくりだが、花嫁は別の女だ」と謎の一言を残し、ヨーロッパへ、ハネムーンに旅立った。その後、田村は行方不明に…。そして第一の殺人が―。サスペンスあふれる長編ユーモア推理。

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About the author

Associated Names:
* 赤川次郎 (Japanese & Traditional Chinese)
* อาคากะวา จิโร (Thai)

Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb (ホームタウンの事件簿 私語を禁ず Homu Taun no Jikenbo: Shigo o Kinzu?) and Voice from Heaven (天からの声 Ten kara no Koe?), were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃 Serafuku to Kikanju?) was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Calico cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of August 2006, he had written more than 480 novels in the course of his thirty year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.