闇に消えた花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #13

by Jirō Akagawa

通っている大学の事務員・しのぶの結婚式に出席することになった亜由美。しかし当日、待てど暮らせど花婿は現れなかった。しかも、花嫁は挙式直前に、アパートを引き払って失踪していたのだ……。この結婚式の後、自殺をはかったしのぶは、記憶喪失に陥ってしまう。亜由美は花婿の失踪を追っていくうちに、意外な事実を突き止める。大人気、花嫁シリーズ第13弾。

263 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 25, 2003

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.