泥棒に手を出すな 夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 ７

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #7

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

犯罪組織の大物・村上竜男の超豪邸で殺人事件が起きた！　殺されたのは元プロレスラーの用心棒・吉川。そして被害者に預けられていた村上夫人の愛犬“太郎”が行方不明に。村上夫妻は殺人事件そっちのけで「誘拐事件だ！」と大騒ぎ。現場に入った警視庁捜査一課の美人刑事・今野真弓に、夫で職業・泥棒の淳一は、職業的カンからあるアドバイスをするが……。傑作ユーモアミステリー！

217 pages, Paperback

First published November 2, 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.