裁判百年史ものがたり

by Shizuko Natsuki

裁判はこんなに面白いのか！　時代を変えた12の法廷ドラマを、夏樹静子が迫真のノンフィクションノベルに。帝銀事件、チャタレイ裁判、永山則夫事件など有名事件から、翼賛選挙に無効判決を下した裁判長の苦悩、犯罪被害者になった弁護士の闘いまで、資料を駆使した人間ドラマとして描く。判決の裏にあった人々の苦闘と勇気に胸が熱くなる傑作。裁判員制度により、法廷が他人事ではなくなった現代の必読の書。

328 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2012

About the author

Shizuko Natsuki (夏樹 静子) was born in Tokyo in 1938. She graduated from Keio University with a degree in English literature. She married in 1963 and moved to Fukuoka, where she has lived since that time with the exception of nine years spent in Nagoya. Natsuki is not only one of Japan’s best-selling mystery writers but also one of the most prolific. She has written more than eighty novels and short-story collections, and more than forty of her novels and stories have been made into films.

Natsuki published her first mystery novel, Tenshi ga kiete iku (the angel has gone), in 1970. The first of her novels to be translated into English was W no higeki (1982; Murder at Mount Fuji, 1984). Several of her short stories have been published in translation in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Natsuki’s writing, like that of many other Japanese mystery writers of her generation, often shows the strong influence of well-known mystery writer Seich Matsumoto.

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《与手枪的不幸相遇》（日）夏树静子。