蒸發

by Shizuko Natsuki, 夏樹靜子, 鍾蕙淳 (Translator)

徘徊在越南、東京與福岡上空的陰鬱，猶如女人體內最深不可測的謎。
冬木悟郎兀自狂奔在這片蒼穹下，企圖讓所有烏雲散去，並解開女人心底的枷鎖。

是啊，若沒遇見你，我怎會了解，女人原來有能力愛人……

東京－－1971年6月
本應客滿的新世紀航空波音七二七班機，赫然少一名旅客！

起飛前，空服員明明看到坐在12C的女子，豈料即將降落之際，座位卻空無一人。

越南－－1971年5月～6月
日本記者冬木悟郎驚傳在越南殉職？所幸證實為誤報。

在野戰醫院接受治療時，他腦海始終迴盪著朝岡美那子的倩影，而非家中妻小。生死關頭，他才體悟自己愛得如此深刻，於是暗下決定，倘使能平安歸國，定要排除萬難與美那子結婚。

只不過，迎接他的竟是美那子拋下丈夫離家出走的消息。

福岡－－1971年7月
丹野鋼材社長失蹤數日，西福岡警方在「望鄉莊」尋獲屍體，現場凌亂，顯然歷經一場打鬥……

消失的神祕女子、死裡逃生的記者、離奇喪命的富商，
究竟在時光交錯的哪一瞬間彼此牽扯？
人間蒸發的背後，埋藏多少凡俗不願面對的盲點與陰謀？

376 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

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.

Reviews

[Liwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

中文書名是「蒸發」。若只能說一個喜歡這本書的原因，應該是這個故事有一個很炫的開場－「在密閉空間，憑空消失的人....」。

[Wilson Yip · Rating 4 out of 5]

很利害嘅開場，將過程描述得很細節。

用不同角色嘅角度追查中並推進故事，很嚴謹嘅寫法。