紙細工の花嫁

花嫁シリーズ #6

by Jirō Akagawa

女子大生亜由美のところに誤配された一通の手紙。それは〈殺人予告〉の脅迫状で、中には花嫁をかたどった紙細工の人形が入っていた。亜由美は駆けつけた殿永刑事と共に宛先の家を訪れるが、なんとその本人は翌日が結婚式だという。持ち前の好奇心に火がついて強引に式場に潜入した亜由美たちの前で結婚式は進み、いよいよケーキカットが始まろうとしていたが、その華やかなケーキの上にまたしてもあの紙細工の花嫁が……!?　名コンビの推理が冴える人気絶頂“花嫁”シリーズ！

Paperback Shinsho

First published June 25, 1993

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.