崖っぷちの花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #26

by Jirō Akagawa

女性はニッコリ笑って、自らのこめかみに銃口を当てた――。平和なはずの遊園地が一変！　なんとジェットコースターのレールの上で女性が自殺しようとしたのだ。木村みずえと名乗るその女性を女子大生・塚川亜由美は命からがら助けたが、なぜ彼女は自殺を図ったのか？　捜査を進める亜由美の前に、新たな死体が……。女子大生・亜由美と愛犬ドン・ファンの迷コンビが難事件に挑む！　表題作のほかに「花嫁は今日も舞う」を収録。

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 25, 2011

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.