やり過ごした殺人

by Jirō Akagawa

平凡な中流家庭に見える早川家……じつは大変な家族なのだ。母親は大泥棒、長男克巳は殺し屋、次男の圭介は弁護士、長女美香は詐欺師で、末っ子の正実はこともあろうに……刑事だった。ただでさえてんやわんやの早川家を謎の誘拐事件が襲う！　早川家に仕掛けられた罠とは？　名作『ひまつぶしの殺人』に続く待望の第二弾！

348 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 20, 1990

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.