白昼の死角

by Akimitsu Takagi

その明晰な頭脳に物を言わせ、法の盲点を巧みにつき、ありとあらゆる手口で犯罪を繰り返す〃天才詐欺師〃鶴岡七郎。警察の追及の手からも最後まで逃げ通した鶴岡の、数々の悪行がこの小説には記されている。多くの名作を生んでいる著者自身が、「発表以来二十年、これ以上の悪党（ピカレスク）小説は書けなかった」とまで言った、高木彬光作品の最高傑作長編推理。

Paperback Bunko

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。