七番目の花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #5

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

作品内容
中年男・前川のフィアンセ・佐千子が殺されかけた。歳の差のある２人の結婚に大反対の人物がいるのだ。第一の敵は、ひとり娘をかわいがる彼女の父親、第二の敵は前川の別れた３人の妻たちが結成したグループ、その名も“前妻連盟”。おなじみ女子大生・亜由美と愛犬ドン・ファンは彼らを守るため、ウェディングドレス発表会場に潜入、ところがそこで連盟のひとりが殺された！　一生に一度かもしれないドレスにうっとりする間もなく、亜由美、捜査にまっしぐら！　花嫁シリーズ第５弾。

288 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 1992

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.