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三毛猫ホームズ #14

三毛猫ホームズの登山列車

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ヨーロッパに観光旅行に来ている片山義太郎、晴美、石津、ホームズの一行は、スイスのユングフラウを訪れる。義太郎は、そこで、展望台から落ちそうになっていた多田靖子という女性を救った。彼女の姉は自殺しており、それを落ち込んでいた彼女を慰めるために、彼女の知り合いで、義太郎のおばである児島光枝が靖子を誘ったのだった。だが、靖子は、スイスで、姉の自殺の原因を作った男・浅井勇治を見かけてしまう。

一方、浅井は妻・実穂と新婚旅行に来ているが、その実穂のもとに元婚約者の男が押しかけてくる。さらには東京で実穂の父親・水田雄一郎の毒殺死体が地下室から発見され、その容疑者がスイスに来ているとの情報が片山のもとに飛び込んできた。さまざまな思惑がスイスの地で錯綜する中、事件は起こる…。

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 1987

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Jirō Akagawa

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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.

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