逃げこんだ花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #4

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

女子大生探偵亜由美のところに、わずか13歳の花嫁が助けを求めてきた。小さな町で起こった二つの大地主の抗争で、その少女は、なんと55歳の男と結婚させられそうになり、逃げだしてきたのだ。おかげで女の子好きのダックスフント、ドン・ファンはしっぽをふりふり大喜び、花嫁を取り返しにやってくる男たちに立ち向かう大活躍！　ところが思わぬところで殺人事件が発生して、花嫁は失踪……彼女の将来どうなる？　おなじみ花嫁シリーズ、今回も元気に爽かにミステリーします。

288 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 1990

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.