午夜的賀電

by Shizuko Natsuki, 夏樹靜子, 鄭美滿 (Translator)

〈橋下的凶器〉
丈夫英年早逝、婆婆也過逝、兒子們出外讀書，獨留下治子與公公同住，本以為能一直保持現狀地繼續生活，公公竟然要與另一名女子再婚，並請治子搬離。不甘多年的努力與孝心都將付之一炬，治子決定謀奪自己應得的生活！

〈黎明的書信〉
「新檢察官霞夕子」火曜日推理劇改編系列原作。藉著一封好友的告別信，昇子發現好友無法承受不幸福的婚姻而自殺了。「都是那個人的錯！」為了替死去的好友復仇，昇子策劃了一場殺人計劃……

〈不知道〉
「新檢察官霞夕子」火曜日推理劇改編系列原作。一場車禍導致駕駛者的妻子死亡。看似為意外車禍，卻是駕駛者欲殺害妻子而精心策劃的事故……

〈午夜的賀電〉
獨居的女子於生日當天午夜被殺害，在臨死前她留下了疑似為兇手的訊息〈仁科來訪‧生日的祝賀〉……

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

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.