泥棒は眠れない

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #8

by Jirō Akagawa

警視庁捜査一課の美人刑事、今野真弓。そして夫の淳一も負けず劣らずいい男である。職業が泥棒という問題はあるが――。原人の骨格が展示されていると評判のＭ博物館で、女性の遺体が発見された。吹矢に塗られた猛毒で殺されたらしい。なぜか、その凶器は原人の手の部分に！　一方、原人の骨を盗もうとしていた淳一は、セーラー服姿の女子高生が運転する車でひき殺されそうになり……。

Paperback Shinsho

First published December 15, 2012

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.