그리고 누군가 없어졌다

by Shizuko Natsuki, 나쓰키 시즈코

湘南・葉山マリーナから沖縄を目指す豪華クルーザーのインディアナ0号が出港した。船のオーナーから招待を受けたのは、会社役員秘書、エッセイスト、医者、弁護士、プロゴルファーの五人。オーナーは御前崎から乗船するという……。翌朝、一人の死体が発見され、彼の干支である猿の置物が消えていたのだ！　騙される快感に酔える傑作長篇。

340 pages, Paperback

Published February 16, 2015

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.