盗みとバラの日々

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #14

by Jirō Akagawa

駆け落ちを計画していた十七歳の真琴だったが、彼はあっさりと金で彼女を捨てた。真琴の祖父で大企業の会長・城ノ内薫が手切れ金を渡したのだった。そんな祖父は三年後、二十代の妻・美保と再婚。美保は会社経営に口を出し、会社が分裂の危機に――。それに気づかない祖父にあきれた真琴は戦略を考える。ある日パーティで美保のネックレスが何者かに狙われた！　これは誰かの罠？

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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.