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三毛猫ホームズ #25

三毛猫ホームズの〈卒業〉

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花嫁がヴァージンロードからさらわれて……殺された!?

純白のタキシードとウェディングドレスに身を包んだ新郎新婦が登場した途端、映画〈卒業〉のように花嫁が連れ去られて……表題作のほか、「衣装戸棚」「招待席」「幽霊船」「噂話」の四篇を収録。

「やめろ!そいつと結婚しちゃいかん!」かの名画『卒業』のラストシーンそのままに、恋人がヴァージンロードから花嫁を奪い去る。しかし翌日には、純白のドレスを真っ赤に染め上げた死体が発見されて…。ドラマチックな仕掛けに、一筋縄ではいかない男女の情を鮮やかに描きあげて意表をつく表題作ほか、上司と部下・同僚・夫婦など、さまざまな人間関係のもたらす愛憎劇を見事に浮き彫りにする読みきり傑作短編、全五話を収録。

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 1993

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Jirō Akagawa

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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.

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