Oedo Kagaku Sosa Hatchobori No Oyu [3] (Takarajimasha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In the town of Edo, which was in the midst of the excitement of a thousand ryo (one thousand ryo) lottery, the largest in history, a thief broke into a large store of a kimono merchant. Denzaburo and his colleagues are convinced that the thief must be the work of "Shippu no Bunzo," a mysterious thief who broke into eight warehouses seven years ago, based on the thief's brilliant methods. Meanwhile, Yuka Sekiguchi (Oyu), a former office worker leading a double life in Edo and modern times, cooperates with Denzaburo's investigation by making full use of modern science while searching for a husband as requested by the tenement house wife...

史上最高額―根津・明昌院の千両富くじに沸く江戸の町で、呉服商の大店に盗人が忍び込んだ。同心の伝三郎たちは、その鮮やかな手口から、七年前に八軒の蔵を破った神出鬼没の盗人“疾風の文蔵”の仕業に違いないと確信する。一方、江戸と現代で二重生活を送る元OLの関口優佳=おゆうは、長屋の奥さんから依頼された旦那探しと並行して、現代科学を駆使して伝三郎の捜査に協力するが...。