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夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #13

by Jirō Akagawa

「人殺しを黙って見過ごしたら、どんなことになる？」殺人現場に隠れていた十五歳の風見涼は残虐な光景を警察に打ち明けた。涼は事故の後遺症で悩む父のために「薬」をもらいに行ったとき、薬売り・吉村卓造が麻薬ギャング・永浜たちに殺されるのを目の当たりにしてしまったのだ！　正義感の強い涼の目撃証言を恐れた永浜は口封じに彼女の命を狙う。真弓と淳一は涼を魔の手から守れるか！？

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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.