白昼的死角

by Akimitsu Takagi, 高木 彬光, 杨清淞 (Translator)

“我是一名犯罪者。这十年来，我倾尽精力，专门研究法律的盲点。我不只是进行了理论上的研究，还付诸实践。我曾在半天之内就建立起一个拥有几亿资本的上市公司，之后便让它瞬间消失；还以某国大使馆为舞台，在半年内将从大使到门卫的全部馆员骗了个遍。老师是否想听听这些事件呢？”

正在温泉疗养的推理小说家高木彬光偶然遇到了自称“天才犯罪者”的鹤冈七郎，他的告白令高木震惊不已，一件件完美实施的罪行堪称艺术品。这份犯罪记录是否应该公开发表，烦恼不已的高木只得与好友伊吹检察官商讨，出于为世人敲响警钟的目的，伊吹支持高木将作品写出来。

鹤冈七郎，这个令人畏惧的天才，即将揭开他的神秘面纱……

478 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Akimitsu Takagi (高木 彬光 , Takagi Akimitsu?, 25 September 1920–9 September 1995), was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi.

Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko) and Kyoto Imperial University, where he studied metallurgy. He was employed by the Nakajima Aircraft Company, but lost his job with the prohibition on military industries in Japan after World War II.

On the recommendation of a fortune-teller, he decided to become a writer. He sent the second draft of his first detective story, The Tattoo Murder Case, to the great mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo, who recognized his skill and who recommended it to a publisher. It was published in 1948.

He received the Tantei sakka club sho (Mystery Writers Club Award) for his second novel, the Noh Mask Murder Case in 1950.

Takagi was a self-taught legal expert and the heroes in most of his books were usually prosecutors or police detectives, although the protagonist in his first stories was Kyosuke Kamizu, an assistant professor at Tokyo University.

Takagi explored variations on the detective novel in the 1960s, including historical mysteries, picaresque novels, legal mysteries, economic crime stories, and science fiction alternate history.

In The Informer (1965), a former Tokyo stock exchange worker is fired because of illegal trades. A subsequent stock market crash means that he has no hope of returning to his old career and therefore he accepts a job from an old friend even though he eventually discovers that the new firm he works for is really an agency for industrial espionage. The plot is based on actual events.

He was struck by stroke several times since 1979, and died in 1995.

From Wikipedia

Reviews

[苍妤 · Rating 2 out of 5]

倒是引起了我对战后日本思想、经济重建过程的兴趣。包括他们对朝鲜战争的看法，其实蛮有意思的，从来没接触过。
故事可以说是经济犯罪。我这种商科小白只能看得一脸懵。需要弄懂「期票」是什么东西，那一段我没看懂，所以后面再精妙的作案手法我也看不懂了……最后一个涉及外国使馆的案子倒是看明白了一些。
这个写作方式倒是很像文言文的说书体，就是什么「小老儿在哪哪遇到一个神人，跟我说了一个故事，于是我记下来了blabla……」

[Nightkid · Rating 3 out of 5]

這本書以天才型罪犯為主角，看著他一路以不同的詐騙手法騙得財富，實在讓我讀得心累 。相比起此類經濟犯罪，我還是比較喜歡傳統殺人與屍體。

[Nutsetoile · Rating 4 out of 5]

也不能说无趣，可读性还是有的。只是看完才发现标签竟然是推理小说，我全程当犯罪小说看的，并没感觉有啥推理情节……另外鹤岗七郎一个金融诈骗犯，在结尾致作家的信里的发言却迷之热血哈哈哈哈哈哈哈（不是。