盗みに追いつく泥棒なし

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #4

by Jirō Akagawa

今野淳一は泥棒であり、警視庁捜査一課の刑事、真弓の夫でもある。この異色カップルがデパートでデートをしていると「じゃ勝手にしなさい！」子供をしかりつけて出て行く母親がいた。「すぐ戻ってくるわよ」と真弓は言うが、淳一と真弓が帰宅して車のトランクを開けてみると、「こんにちは。私、迷子になっちゃったみたい」そこにはデパートで怒られていた子供が……。好評シリーズ第四弾！

Paperback Shinsho

First published January 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.