花嫁は墓地に住む

花嫁シリーズ #27

by Jirō Akagawa

不倫カップルが密会で見た幽霊の正体は……？　女子大生・塚川亜由美と親友の神田聡子は、温泉宿で聡子の親戚・須田朱美と遭遇。朱美は、不倫相手の河本昭男と旅館で落ち合う予定だった。しかし、そこへ朱美の母や河本の妻までやって来て一波乱！　亜由美に助けを求めた朱美は、以前、深夜の墓地デートで幽霊を見たと打ち明けて……。宿には元教師、仲居頭など問題を抱えた人間が集い、やがて１億円を巡り大混乱に!?　表題作のほかに「花嫁は名剣士」を収録した、大人気花嫁シリーズ。

166 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 20, 2013

About the author

Associated Names:
* 赤川次郎 (Japanese & Traditional Chinese)
* อาคากะวา จิโร (Thai)

Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb (ホームタウンの事件簿 私語を禁ず Homu Taun no Jikenbo: Shigo o Kinzu?) and Voice from Heaven (天からの声 Ten kara no Koe?), were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃 Serafuku to Kikanju?) was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Calico cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of August 2006, he had written more than 480 novels in the course of his thirty year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.