蒸発―ある愛の終わり

by Shizuko Natsuki

満席で飛び立ったジェット機内から、一人の女が消えた!?新聞記者の冬木悟郎は、人妻・朝岡美那子失踪の謎を追って、彼女の郷里・福岡へ。そこで彼は、美那子をかつて愛していた男の失踪、そして殺人事件に出遭う。愛しい女に対して深まりゆく疑惑。蒸発の真相は…。男女の愛を叙情豊かに活写したミステリーの名著待望の復刊。「日本推理作家協会賞」受賞作。

Paperback Shinsho

First published January 1, 1972

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.

Reviews

[Liwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

中文書名是「蒸發」。若只能說一個喜歡這本書的原因，應該是這個故事有一個很炫的開場－「在密閉空間，憑空消失的人....」。

[Wilson Yip · Rating 4 out of 5]

很利害嘅開場，將過程描述得很細節。

用不同角色嘅角度追查中並推進故事，很嚴謹嘅寫法。