泥棒は三文の得

夫は泥棒、妻は刑事 #9

by Jirō Akagawa

レストランの調理場で男性が殺された。コック見習いの井上博夫が、シェフの大倉果林と何者かが言い争っていたと証言。警視庁捜査一課の今野真弓は果林を連行する。しかし証拠不十分で釈放へ。そして新たな殺人事件が発生。現場へ真弓が急行すると、そこにはなぜか果林が！　調理場の事件とは一転、「私が殺しました」と容疑を認める。彼女に何が？

Paperback Bunko

First published January 15, 2013

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.