魔法少女梦见完全犯罪?

魔法使いマリィ #1

by Tokuya Higashigawa, 东川笃哉

废柴警探搭档“结婚狂”御姐上司，与毒舌美少女狭路相逢。队友脑回路异常，魔法歪打不着，四起悬案请你来解谜：
1.十分钟杀人并将屋内家具倒置，一只手能办到吗？
2.请仅凭一粒纽扣，推翻罪犯的不在场证明。
3.一对男女“被自杀”，凶手马脚就在那里，你能找到吗？
4.怎样在市内公寓熟睡，同时在偏远公园杀人？（不使用魔法）

Paperback

First published September 30, 2012

About the author

Tokuya Higashigawa (1968–) debuted in 2002 with a novel that won him the Kappa-ONE Newcomers Prize in a contest open to the general public. Since then, he has concentrated solely on writing humorous mysteries, a genre that is not well established in Japan. With Nazotoki wa dina no ato de (The Riddle-Solving Can Wait till After Dinner), he became a best-selling author. Jokes and witty dialogue between unconventional characters are his forte, but his works are held solidly together by tricks of logic and well-conceived puzzles. Higashigawa has received praise from older mystery writers for his skillful reinventions of such devices as the locked-room murder and the dying message, and for his versatility in being able to craft novels that involve kidnappings, contract killings, and other daring crimes.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess this book is here only for the entertainment value, there's no depth in the plots, the stories and the characters. I think we're only supposed to take the stories and the characters like they are from a Japanese light-hearted manga. I'm entertained by the stories, but it does nothing to endear me to it and its author.

[Erika · Rating 2 out of 5]

題名が気になったので借りてみた。
が、文章は稚拙だし、女性の描き方が性的で気持ち悪いし、一昔前の「ユーモア」でつまらない。
この作者の作品に挑戦するのは「謎解きはディナーのあとで」に続いて３回目な気がするけれど、毎回つまらない。
コンセプトは面白そうなのに残念。
安っぽさがテレビの原作には向いてるのかも。日本のテレビドラマもほとんどつまらないしね。
（友人お勧めの「マル秘の密子さん」も見たが、物凄くつまらなかったし、あれも。）

最初の１話しか読んでないけれど、忘れないように星をつけておく。

[Thk · Rating 3 out of 5]

(reviewing for 9787544752152)

the stories are actually quite good, just that the build-up seems overly long for each of the 4 short stories. I actually feel that the translation is just not up to scratch, with a lot of Chinese idioms that probably have no Japanese equivalent being used to "pad up" the text.