花嫁は夜汽車に消える

花嫁シリーズ #22

by Jirō Akagawa

花嫁とともに消えた三十年前の真実とは――？　モノクロ映像の中で、列車をバックに恥じらう花嫁。ドキュメンタリー番組〈花嫁の歴史〉のプロデューサーから彼女を捜すよう命じられたスタッフの片丘と今日子だが、花嫁の顔になぜか見覚えが……。一方、女子大生・亜由美は孤独死した老女が遺した日記帳を受け取る。そこには、ある受刑者の無実を示す証拠があった――。表題作のほかに「花嫁は天使のごとく」を収録。

149 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 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.