Aibou TV Season 3 Episode 10 - Ghost~Wine with Murderous Intent(ゴースト〜殺意のワイン)

Subtitle: Ghost~Wine with Murderous Intent(ゴースト〜殺意のワイン)

 Eiko Sawamura(沢村 映子) is a famous author of romance novels who has been mentioned as a potential future recipient of the prestigious Naoki Prize. One day, her husband is found dead after falling from the balcony at their home. He left a touching suicide note, and his death appears to be suicide, but Inspector Ukyō notices something troubling about his suicide note. Was Eiko's husband's death really a suicide? If he was killed, who murdered him and why?

Other characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Eiko Sawamura(沢村 瑛子) - Famous writer of romance novels. She won the Sirius New Author's Award(シリウス文芸新人賞) in 1995 for her short story Narrow Path of Youth(青春の小径 Seishun No Komichi) before her public debut. More recently, she released a novel titled A Goddess Is Smiling at the End of Love(愛の果てに女神が微笑む Ai No Hate Ni Megami Ga Hohoemu). Her husband recently committed suicide, mimicking events from that novel.

Takeo Mihara(三原 健夫) - Eiko fell in love with him at first sight and married him two years ago. After getting married, he replaced Ikue as her editor for his wife's next novel, The Third Woman(第三の女 Dai San No Onna). However, the book was critically panned as lacking literary polish. After this setback, Eiko went back and asked Ikue to edit her work again from her next novel.

Mihara fell to his death the day after Inspector Ukyō saw him at Eiko's autograph signing event. In his suicide note, he used the word "meet" and wrote it as deau (出逢う). Most people write deau as (出会う), but his famous wife intentionally writes deau as (出合う - "match") in all her novels except one - The Third Woman(第三の女 Dai San No Onna). In that novel, Eiko wrote deau as (出逢う), the same kanji used in Mihara's suicide note. Eiko also used (出逢う) in her award winning short story Narrow Path of Youth.

Ikue Hida(肥田 育恵) - Editor who works with Eiko, who calls her Ikuchan(育ちゃん). In reality, she ghostwrote all of Eiko's novels except The Third Woman. She was working part-time at at President Takagi's publishing company who Eiko applied to the company. Intrigued by her looks (but not her writing skills), President Takagi asked Ikue to work with Eiko to write their first novel. Ikue ended up writing most of their first collaborative work, and this established how these two women would work together to write future novels, which continues to this day.

Tsutomu Takagi(高木 勉) - Editor-in-chief and president of the company publishing Eiko's novels. He left a large publisher and started his on company nine years ago. President Takagi hired Eiko when she applied to the company after receiving the Sirius New Author's Award, more for her looks than her writing abilities. He then asked Ikue to work with Eiko and write a novel with her.