三毛猫ホームズのクリスマス

三毛猫ホームズ #10

by Jirō Akagawa

クリスマスイヴだというのに、全寮制の女子校に用心棒としてやってきた三毛猫ホームズ一行。ここで警備員をやっている、片山刑事の親友久保が一週間ほど旅に出るというので、仕方なく留守を引き受けたのだ。美人女子高生に囲まれて女性恐怖症の片山は緊張ぎみだが、石津刑事はシチューに旺盛な食欲を発揮してご満悦。ところがまたまた事件発生、久保が死体で発見されたのだ。さあ、三人と一匹がクリスマスプレゼントを片手に大活躍、全五編収録、ほんとうに忙しい一行です。

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 1984

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.