特急北アルプス殺人事件

十津川警部

by 西村 京太郎, Kyōtarō Nishimura

飛騨高山の民芸館の水瓶から、若い女性の死体が発見された。翌日には、飛騨の里で、合掌造りを模した雪像の中から、若い男の死体が…。美しい箱庭のような町を震撼させる連続殺人!十津川警部と亀井刑事は高山へ向かうが、捜査に上層部から圧力がかけられる。さらに、有力な容疑者には鉄壁なアリバイがあった。『北アルプス』と『ひだ』を利用した巧妙なトリックとは。

225 pages, Paperback Shinsho

First published January 1, 1985

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Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has quite a special value to me because it takes in Takayama, Japan. A tourist town which I'd visited once.

How Takayama looks like:


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3.4 stars. I like the opening parts of the story and how Takayama is described in the story. I don't like the middle part of the story so much because once we leave Takayama behind, the story falls right back to a very typical and overused cops-investigate-a-murder-case routine. However, by the end of the story I was really impressed by how the murderer creates his/her alibi he went aboard a train which looks very similar to the train he was supposed to get on, in order to trick everyone. So the extra 0.4 star is gained.

[一般樓 · Rating 3 out of 5]

老實說，故事並不那麼嚴謹，很多細節是用自然帶過的方式。例如，主兇殺了三人，分別是怎麼殺的？尤其其中還有一個是有備而來的刑警，而兇手不過是一個大公司老闆而已，如何殺？一個已經準備好不在場證明的人，應該不那麼容易被威脅勒索才對。又被勒索後如何付錢？也沒交代。總之，太多細節是一筆帶過，像連續劇的粗糙手法。但也因為這種把握住主線的寫作方式，所以整體的氣氛營造較好，不會被細節分散了緊湊度。只是主線上，設計不在場的方式也扯了一點。一個年輕小姐，在神智清醒的情況下，被一個陌生人把自己的手錶撥慢了三十九分，還被誤導搭上了不同的火車而不自知，情節實在有點勉強。