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毒殺倶楽部 (朝日文庫)

Ayukawa Tetsuya Award

毒殺倶楽部 (朝日文庫)

Matsushita Mario

A full-length mystery in which a story about people fascinated by poison eerily resonates with an actual crime. Its structure, in which the embedded fiction and the outer case begin to slip apart, gives the book a distinctive aftertaste shaped by its delayed publication.

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Work Information

The story’s own "Dokusatsu Club" seems to draw real-world events toward it.

An honorable mention at the 2006 Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. It remained unpublished for a long time, then appeared in 2019 as an Asahi Bunko title from Asahi Shimbun Publications. Around the embedded work 'Dokusatsu Club,' the line between invention and reality begins to blur.

Book Information

Publisher
朝日新聞出版
Published
2019-10-07
Pages
352 pages
Language
日本語
Size
14.8 x 10.5 x 1.4 cm
ISBN-13
9784022649317
ISBN-10
4022649313
Price
814 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/ミステリー・サスペンス・ハードボイルド

轢死した作家・柏原のデビュー作『毒殺倶楽部』。 それは、毒に魅了された5人の仲間が創作した話をまとめたものだった。 しかし、「毒殺倶楽部」が実在するという噂が広がり始め……。 第16回鮎川哲也賞佳作、待望の文庫化!

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