Midnight Suite

by Jirō Akagawa, Gavin Frew (Translator)

ラジオの身上相談、ラッシュアワーの席の譲り合い、何の気なしにする署名……そんな些細な行為の足元に黒々と口をあけている落し穴が！　退屈で平凡な日常と背中あわせの恐怖を八つのテーマで多彩に描きわけた奇妙な味のミステリー。登場人物は、サラリーマン、ＯＬ、主婦……そう、あ・な・た・です。

Genres: Japanese Literature

190 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 1981

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.

Reviews

[Rena]

Title: Midnight Suite
Author: Jiro Akagawa

[Habiba Nabila]

[Spoiler alert]

This book contains several short stories.
The first story was good. I didn't expect it was going to be a horror story! But the rest of it was just okay.

[Sitanan]

The first story is incredibly good.