黒い壁

by Jirō Akagawa, 酒井 駒子 (Illustrator), 赤川次郎

サラリーマン・利根は、大学時代の同級生・野川からドイツ土産に〈ベルリンの壁のかけら〉を受けとった。壁が崩壊してから十年が経過している。なぜ、今頃──。不審に思う利根の周りで、次々に不可思議な出来事が。目撃した射殺死体が消滅。親友・永井は「おれは、殺される！」と言い残し失踪。そして永井の妻は死体で見つかった。あの壁のかけらが、悲劇を巻き起こすのか？　統一前のドイツと現代日本を結ぶ、壮大なサスペンス・ホラー。

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2003

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.