マザコン刑事の探偵学

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

平凡な会社員鈴井伸夫のもとに、幼なじみと称する女が現れた。顔に覚えはなかったが、酔って一夜をともにした翌日、ベッドの隣には絞殺死体が！　しかも昨夜の女とは明らかに別人……。事件解決に乗り出したのは、ハンサムなのに強度のマザコンの警視庁捜査一課・大谷努警部。部下で恋人の女性刑事香月弓江と、息子を溺愛する大谷の母のトリオが繰りひろげるユーモアミステリー第二弾！

276 pages, Paperback

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.