泥棒は片道切符で 夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 ６

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #6

by Jirō Akagawa

コンビニ強盗の現場に遭遇した刑事の今野真弓は、犯人を捕らえようと店内に飛び込んだ。危うく射殺されそうになるが、九死に一生を得る。休暇を取るように言われた真弓は、夫の純一と一緒に海辺のホテルへ向うが、そこでも事件が。ホテルの支配人に「三日以内に一億円を用意すること」と脅迫状が届いたのだ。真弓の休暇、そして事件の行方は？

227 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 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.