M的悲劇

by Shizuko Natsuki, 夏樹靜子, 朱佩蘭 (Translator)

北海道・釧路よりさらに東の厚岸町。東京からこちらへ移って七回目の海霧の季節をむかえた神淵早奈美は、この海霧を見るたびに、夫・洋造との平穏な生活の崩壊を懼れとともに期待したいた。そんなある日、突然一人の青年が夫のもとに弟子入りし、彼女の予感は現実のものになった。名作『Wの悲劇』に続く殺意と愛憎の傑作。

318 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1985

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.