泥棒よ大志を抱け 夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 ３

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #3

by Jirō Akagawa

冷静沈着な亭主、今野淳一と、おっちょこちょいな女房、真弓。お互いを補い合った理想的夫婦だが、夫が泥棒で妻が刑事という点を「いい組み合わせ」と呼べるかどうかは異論が残るかもしれない。初恋相手が三人もいる真弓が、そのひとり小谷と遭遇。しかし久々の出会いを喜ぶ時間はなかった。彼は命を狙われていたからだ。その夜、小谷の家が火事に……好評シリーズ第三弾！

384 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2011

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.