沒搭上車的女人

by Shizuko Natsuki, 夏樹靜子, 許韶芸 (Translator)

今天，我同樣偷偷地埋下了一個不誠實的祕密。
而關於我的孤獨之旅，這樣愉快的事，或許也稱得上是個祕密吧。

兩年前駕駛摩托車意外衝撞學童隊伍釀成死傷，事後卻毫無悔意的男子，在深夜歸途中的僻靜小路上遭人襲擊而死。

自偵查線索上所浮現出的最大嫌疑女子，於案發當夜，卻搭乘著計程車，在從東京前往新瀉的關越汽車道上！這個幾近完美的不在場證明……

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

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.