殺人はそよ風のように～赤川次郎プレミアム・コレクション～

by Jirō Akagawa

アイドル歌手・星沢夏美（ほしざわなつみ）が自殺未遂し入院した。熱狂的なファンである本堂克彦（ほんどうかつひこ）は妹の千絵と病院への潜入を試みるが失敗。帰宅しようと停めたタクシーに無理矢理乗り込んできたのは、憧れのアイドル！　病室からマネージャー永原幸男の死体が発見されたことを知った二人は夏美を匿（かくま）う。一週間後に用意された新曲発表の舞台。そこに彼女は現れ、真相は明かされるのか？

314 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 20, 2010

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.