ゴールした花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #10

by Jirō Akagawa

えっ！　私が、フルマラソン!?　いつの間にかマラソン大会にエントリーされてしまった女子大生・亜由美。距離は42.195キロ。そう、42メートルじゃないのだ……。こうなったら女の意地。死ぬ気で走りはじめたマラソン会場で殺人事件が起こったから、さあ大変!!　おまけに、トップ走者・市原ミキまで倒れて、大会は大混乱。果たして亜由美はゴールできるのか？　そして、殺人事件の裏に潜む陰謀とは？　表題作のほか「花嫁の卒業論文」を併載。花嫁シリーズ第10弾。

Paperback Shinsho

First published March 25, 2000

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.