幽霊列車

幽霊 [Yūrei] #1

by Jirō Akagawa

山間の温泉町へ向う列車から八人の乗客が蒸発してしまった。前代未聞の難事件に取り組んだ中年警部は行く先々で推理マニアの女子大生に出っくわす。捜査の邪魔だとカッカしていたオニ警部殿はいつの間にかこの美女にカッカ。そして二人はいつしか名コンビになる。著者のデビュー作であり、〈幽霊シリーズ〉第一弾となった表題作ほか、二人が出会った10の殺人、５つの事件、「裏切られた誘拐」「凍りついた太陽」「ところにより、雨」「善人村の村祭」を収録。

Paperback Bunko

First published August 25, 1981

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.