盗んではみたけれど

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #11

by Jirō Akagawa

「真弓さんの知り合いが被害者です！」部下の道田刑事から電話を受け、もの凄い形相で現場に駆けつけた警視庁捜査一課の今野真弓。鈍器で後頭部を殴打され殺されたのは、真弓の大学時代の先輩・野口靖夫だった。彼はＳ工機を経営する大金持ちの川田結花と結婚したはずが、なぜかホームレスになっていたのだ！　相続争いが招いた不幸。真弓の熱い想いが謎を暴く！

Paperback Shinsho

First published March 15, 2013

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.