死者は空中を歩く

by Jirō Akagawa

「私を殺していただきたいのです」――大富豪・千住忠高の晩餐に招待された四人の男は、千住のとんでもない頼みに呆然とした。千住の屋敷・万華荘を舞台に繰り広げられる不可解な事件、そして殺人。千住の娘・美也子は、不可能状況での殺人の謎を解き明かそうとするが――？　赤川次郎がおくる、長編本格推理小説。

388 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 1999

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.